Terraced and Embedded in Topography: The House Follows the Slope

A house embedded in a hillside with stepped setbacks. The volume is divided into two or three sections along the contour lines, each offset by half to one story; one side, facing the mountain, is half buried in the earth, with a retaining wall made of dry-stacked local stone; the side facing the valley cantilevers out to form a terrace. The roof also follows the offset rather than being a single continuous plane. When viewed from the opposite mountain, the house's silhouette is below the tree line. Avoid: leveling the site into a flat platform, making the house a single, complete, towering volume, using a roof higher than the tree canopy, ignoring the relationship between the retaining wall and the terrain.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟嵌進山坡的房子。量體順著等高線分成兩三段,每一段錯開半層到一層,靠山的一側有一半埋進土裡、擋土牆是乾砌的當地石;向谷的一側懸挑出去形成露台。屋頂也跟著錯位而不是一片到底。從對面山看過去,房子的輪廓低於樹冠線。避免:把基地整平成一塊平台、讓房子做成單一完整的高聳量體、使用高於樹冠的屋頂、忽略擋土牆與地形的關係。