Definition: A House Governing a Piece of Land

The main house of a tropical agricultural estate. The house does not exist in isolation: in front of it is a straight, tree-lined driveway, surrounded by rows of sugarcane, coffee, pineapples, or rubber trees. In the distance are worker settlements and processing sheds. The main house is elevated on a plinth, with a row of columns and a veranda facing the fields. From the veranda, one can see the entire crop. Its form is designed for supervision and reception. Avoid: depicting the house as a standalone volume without land, surrounding it with urban areas and neighboring houses, ignoring the axial relationship between the driveway and the fields, or making the surroundings into ornamental gardens.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟熱帶農業莊園的主屋。房子不是單獨存在的:前面有一條筆直的林蔭車道、周圍是成排的甘蔗、咖啡、鳳梨或橡膠,遠處有工人的聚落與加工的棚屋。主屋抬高在一個台基上,面向田地的那一側是整排的柱與門廊,從廊上可以看到整片作物。它的形式是為了監看與接待。避免:把房子畫成沒有土地的單棟量體、讓周圍是都市與鄰房、忽略車道與田地的軸線關係、把周邊做成觀賞性的花園。