The Fireplace is a Solid Volume

A rustic fireplace as the core of the space. It is an independent, solid volume, extending from the ground all the way to the ridge, made of dry-stacked stone or fair-faced concrete with formwork marks. The firebox opening is a clean rectangular aperture, without any frames or mantel decorations, and the interior of the firebox is black steel plate. This volume divides the open space into two areas, allowing people to walk around it. Avoid: using traditional forms with carvings and mantels, adding glass doors and electric flames, making the fireplace a thin panel attached to the wall, adding metal frames and decorative edges to the firebox opening.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座作為空間核心的質樸壁爐。它是一個獨立的實心量體,從地面一路貫穿到屋脊,材質是乾砌的石材或有板模痕的清水混凝土;爐口是一個乾淨的矩形開孔,沒有任何框與檯面裝飾,爐膛內部是黑色的鋼板。這個量體把開放空間分成兩區,人可以繞著它走。避免:使用有雕花與壁爐架的傳統形式、加入玻璃門與電子火焰、把壁爐做成貼在牆上的薄片、在爐口加入金屬框與裝飾邊。