SHI HOUSE, Morelia, Michoacán, México

墨西哥莫雷利亞　石屋

HW Studio

This house sits patiently on the slope of a ravine waiting each day for the sun to set behind the mountain. The project is formed by a vertical element that opts for stony materials to become, with time and climate, part of the mountain on which it lays.

此屋坐落於峽谷斜坡上，日復一日迎接山背後的落日美景。本案由一個垂直元素構成，並選用石質材料；建築亦隨著時間和氣候的推移，逐漸成為山體的一部分。

This new and platonic stone vertically connects the drive to the rest of the house, which is organized as a solitary horizontal element, emerging abruptly from the mountain and projecting towards the front until it floats above it. Its white, abstract, and somewhat defiant nature seeks a visual balance between the natural and the artificial. The Japanese believe that we have to place two opposites together to experience any phenomenon; this house could be an exercise in matching such two opposites.

該量體以石為材，垂直連接車道與房屋的其他部分，而房屋本身則形成獨立的水平元素，矗立於山體之中並向前延伸，如同漂浮在山體之上。建築外觀呈現白色，散發一種抽象且強烈的氣息，繼而在自然和人造元素之間達到視覺的平衡。以某些東方觀點而言，相異元素的碰撞方能創造完整的體驗；而這座建築則體現該說法，嘗試將兩個迥異的元素彼此搭配，相輔相成。

The house is close to the neighbors and is transparent to the front and to a natural reserve inside a deep ravine that we framed horizontally along the public areas. The use of the Engawa, or interior-exterior space, around the entire glazed surface is intended to dilute the light and cause a smooth transition between the inside and the outside. As opposed to the rest of the house, all private areas remain introspective, illuminated, and ventilated by a long courtyard that only connects to the outside through the sky.

此建築與周圍社區毗鄰，並向前方和深谷內的自然保護區敞開，團隊以水平方向沿著公共區域將量體框住，透過玻璃立面稀釋光線，同時形成室內外的平穩過渡。不同於房屋其他部分，所有私人區域皆隱密低調，僅由一道長型的庭院提供照明和維持通風，庭中天景則成為對外的唯一連結。