Not Style Architecture: Houses Can Be Any Form

Not a style of architecture: houses can be any form. Three California homes with different exteriors are lined up: one is a single-story ranch-style bungalow, one is a wooden beach house, and one is a mid-century modern flat-roofed house. Their commonality is not in their exterior vocabulary, but in large openings facing the yard, deep eaves for sun shading, and indoor and outdoor floor levels being almost flush. California casual is a lifestyle, not a facade. Avoid: depicting the three houses in the same architectural style, adding red tile and white wall Spanish vocabulary to them, having openings face the street instead of the yard, creating steps and thresholds between indoor and outdoor.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

三棟外觀不同的加州住宅並排:一棟是單層的牧場式平房,一棟是木造的海邊小屋,一棟是中世紀現代的平屋頂住宅。它們的共同點不在外觀語彙,而在大面開口朝向院子、深簷遮陽、室內外地坪幾乎齊平。加州休閒是一種生活方式,不是一種立面。避免:把三棟畫成同一種建築風格、給它們加上紅瓦白牆的西班牙語彙、讓開口朝向街道而非院子、把室內外之間做出台階與門檻。