“It has that unique Sonoma quality—very organic, elegant, and simple. There are so many nice moments along the way, from the entry to the shower. Well done!”
—2013 Professional Awards Jury

“超凡独特，优雅简单。从进门到淋浴空间，都是无屑可击的完美时刻。”
–2013年专业奖评审委员会

Sonoma Retreat By Aidlin Darling, Sna Francisco, CA 更多关于他们，请至：Aidlin Darling Design on gooood

Sonoma Retreat位于北加州某小镇上，设计师期望借由种植材料与建筑元素的层次布局，使得从社区到住宅的一系列路径自然过渡，最后获得非常私人，归隐自然的空间。

The Sonoma Retreat aims to investigate and challenge ideas of private and semi-private domestic space within the framework of a once neglected residential parcel above the town of Sonoma in Northern California. Through subtle manipulations in grade, the careful selection of planting materials and the insertion of discrete architectural elements, a new sequence of paths and spaces was created that range from the communal to the very private.

业主从南非移居到旧金山，整个住宅坐落在杂草丛生的南向斜坡上，业主希望这座新住宅能够利用活力与自然的地形，并收纳坡下的风景，同时设计师需要参考他们以前在南非的住宅。设计师通过再生柚木，混凝土，石材，风化雪松材打造出简洁的现代主义风格，实现质朴与精致共存。

Located on a south sloping ten-acre parcel, the Sonoma Retreat was created to revitalize an existing residence for a South African family now transplanted in San Francisco. The design involved reclaiming an overgrown hillside to the south of their existing rammed earth house with the hopes of restoring vibrancy to the land, preserving the natural features and enhancing the panoramic views. Working closely with the clients to create an architecture that referenced aspects of their former home in South Africa, it was important to counterbalance the rustic with the refined; a modernism of clean lines that worked in concert with the warm patina of reclaimed teak, hand formed concrete, bush hammered stone and sun weathered cedar.

这个项目需要创造一个室外厨房与餐区，一个太阳能温水泳池与水疗中心，一个门球场，一个隐藏林间的安静冥想亭。设计师通过梯田，朴素的硬质景观和有机的路径以及植物材料，岩石和其它设计要素将这些功能组织，并使得他们与原生景观融合。

The project’s ambitious agenda was to create an outdoor kitchen and dining area, a solar heated swimming pool and spa, Croquet and Bocce courts and a hidden exercise/meditation pavilion all within a small section of the property constrained by wooded areas of chaparral. Through a strategy of subtle terracing, rustic hardscape and organic paths, a framework was created that navigates the existing rock outcroppings and weaves a variety of individual program elements and plant materials subtly into the indigenous landscape.

从主体建筑到达泳池的下降路径由混凝土板与风化石材定义，创造出自然的过渡节点，重新定向空间。平台可用作私人阅读场所或看门球场所。

The path from the house down to the pool is organized around a series of terraces that are defined by board formed concrete and weathered stacked stonewalls. These create indirect paths, perpendicular to the slope, that help to knit together the natural and man-made while redirecting one’s experience toward the immediate landscape. Below the new outdoor dining area are a rhythmic series of concrete benches that retain the hillside and add structure to the surrounding paths and vegetation. This provides a private place to sit and read or simply watch the activities on the Croquet court below.

游泳池，温泉水疗区域是大型家庭聚会的据点，泳池后方的藤架提供了这个区域急需的阴影。泳池下方几级台阶平台布置了温泉水疗区，边界利用锈蚀钢板墙面界定。保护了隐私同时能够让上方平台的人们享受到山谷美景。

Swimming Pool and Spa

The swimming pool, heated spa and shade trellis are the focal point of family gatherings and larger parties. The trellis on the north side of the pool provides much needed shade and acts as an armature for several climbing grape vines. The steel Vierendeel truss of the trellis allows for long, open spans and its’ lightness acts as a visual counterpoint to the rusticated cedar of the trellis’s columns and purlins. Several steps down and visually hidden on the lower pool deck behind a screen of Mexican Sage and Fountain Grass is a heated spa that offers a semi-private place to relax while taking in the immediate landscape and views of the valley below.

室外厨房与用餐区

用餐区靠近主体建筑，离室外厨房距离很近。整个餐区布置在一个混凝土柱支撑的开放框架下面，天花是精致的镀锌钢管。如蜂巢式的灯具在夜晚发出温馨的光线。

Outdoor Kitchen and Dining Area

From the outdoor kitchen it is a short walk to a series of steps that take you down into an outdoor dining room that appears to float in the landscape. The illusion is strengthened by a trellis that defines space through its’ large board formed concrete columns and a “ceiling” of delicate galvanized pipe. The area is illuminated at night by a series of rustic steel “beehive” light fixtures that create a glowing play of light and sense of intimacy during family dinners.

冥想亭与其他功能隔开，单独存在，隐藏于东边的树林中，人们通过两道弯墙定义的路径进入这个区域。这里的隐蔽与宁静宛如世外桃源，一切与疯狂的日常节奏无关，只有放松自己，发现自己，了解自然。冥想亭建立起深层次的自我认识与重新发现。

Exercise/Meditation Pavilion

Partially Hidden to the east of the pool amongst a grove of Oaks, Manzanita and Madrone, two curved earthen walls gently carve into the landscape to create the entry to the intimate pavilion below. Topography, orientation and landscape are all considered in the choreography of experience, heightening one’s sense of discovery, privacy and ultimately the serenity of escape. Inherent in the idea of creating a retreat are imbedded concepts of privacy, safety and refuge. By creating a private space away from the frenetic rhythms of the everyday, one finds the possibility to relax, to reconnect with oneself and more completely understand the natural environment that is all around. It is through this separation from the everyday, this quieting of the mind, that a deeper connection is understood with the self. The design of the pavilion seeks to foster self discovery not only by creating a sense of privacy through it’s many layers, but once inhabited, aspires to dissolve away leaving the inhabitant and nature to become reacquainted.

冥想亭主要由冥想/健身/瑜伽平台，蒸汽浴室，更衣室，浴室，餐点吧，阳台，世外淋浴区等部分组成，这些要素放置在一个简单的雪松框架下，与周边环境融合，找饱览美丽风景的同时又可以在获得浓荫庇护，还有日光斑驳的区域能舒适的晒太阳。

The program for the pavilion involved the creation of a primary meditation / workout / yoga studio with an adjacent steam room, changing rooms, bathroom, refreshment bar, private sundeck and an outdoor shower. The building’s form is defined by a collection of simple rustic cedar boxes that provide a counterpoint to the surrounding landscape. These boxes not only define and anchor the contiguous spaces, but they create visual apertures that act to frame features of the natural environment. The rectilinear forms are in turn cradled by the curved retaining walls, which take their cues from the idea of an African “boma” or enclosure. A floating deck of reclaimed teak extends interior space out into a sea of Westringia obscuring the boundaries between inside and outside. The siting of the architecture and the configuration of the plan use the building’s mass and the natural topography to screen the retreat from its surrounds while preserving panoramic views to the southeast. A canopy of cantilevered lodgepole pine is encouraged to naturally twist and silver, and floats above the roof, providing much needed shade to the sundeck below. Oak and Manzanita trees to the south provide additional dappled shade and in areas open up to reveal glimpses of the nearby foothills beyond.

这个可持续性的项目运用了大量的耐旱植物，有效降低了灌溉量。利用树影和挑出的屋檐适当遮蔽加州永恒明媚的阳光。混凝土墙是天然的储热体。冥想亭有可调试外墙适应不同的天气情况。开放的环境最大限度利用了自然空气的流通。杉木做成的表皮可以呼吸，因此建筑具有更高的使用年限。几乎所有的材料都是再审材料。地板，加班，凳子来自回收的柚木木材。蒸汽浴室和更衣室的石盆来自填海石灰石。泳池的循环加热系统热量来自南坡上的太阳能光伏板。

Sustainability

All of the planting materials used throughout the project are drought tolerant and are minimally irrigated. The entire retreat was carefully sited amongst the existing trees to minimize the projects impact on the tree’s fragile root network while also taking advantage of the shade the trees could provide. At the pavilion, deep roof overhangs allow for solar heat gain in the Winter and provide shade from the intense California sun during the Summer. The curved board formed concrete walls also aid in regulating temperature by providing additional thermal ballast that helps to maintain the interior temperature. When weather permits, the entire south and east ，glazed facades of the pavilion slide away and completely retract into the walls. This facilitates airflow through the building and eliminates the need for conditioned air. The building’s cedar
skin is constructed as a rain screen and deters the capillary action from driving rain found in typical construction. This allows the building to breathe, ultimately leading to greater longevity. Almost all of the finished materials within the retreat are reclaimed. The floors, decks and benches came from reclaimed teak timbers. The stone basins within the steam room and changing room were carved from larger pieces of reclaimed limestone. Finally, the pool is heated by a solar hydronic system and much of the building’s yearly electrical load is offset by an array of photovoltaic solar panels that are hidden from view on the southern slope of the site below the Croquet court.
English text and photos via ASLA

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