建筑师和业主在早期沟通时，给了两位双胞胎纸笔让他们画画，当沟通接近尾声，双胞胎的画作也完成，他们没有画梦幻的车和龙，而是画了尖尖的塔屋。这些塔屋最终成为建筑师的灵感。
在很多改建案例中，新增的建筑就像是一个陌生的癌细胞衣服在原有建筑上。而在这个改建项目中，一系列小结构围绕老建筑布局形成独有层次，内中有外，外中有内的结构。整个街区3号门牌过了就是7号门牌，遗失的5号门牌被“村落
”“代替”。另外建筑师还考虑了第五立面，让整个区域从空中看起来也非常美观。
The twins’ sketches
During an early design meeting we handedthe twin boys paper and pencils and asked them to quietly entertain themselveswhile the adults spoke about ‘more important things’. After discussing thecomplexity
of designing a home, and the variouspossibilities, we had all found ourselves deep down the rabbit hole, confused,lost and tired. We looked over to the boys to discover that they were notdrawing cars,
soldiers or dragons. Instead they had drawntheir house. With modest confidence they slid their simple sketches, completewith notations, to me saying in unison “there you go”. Their sketches distilleda
lot of ideas. They had firmly pushed theboat off the shore and we were on our way.
Home as village
As homes increase in size they increasinglyappear as hostile monoliths. When a home is extended, often the monolith crashesinto the original. The later looking like an alien cancerous growth on theformer.
Tower House is anti-monolith. Tower Houseis village externally and a home internally. The house defies logic as theexterior appears to be a series of small structures, while internally thespaces and
functions are large and connected. Like theTardis, it’s small on the outside and large internally.
Missing No.5
The mysterious case of the missing No.5.There is no No.5 in this street, which is odd. No.3 and No.7 sit side by sideand no one can explain why No.5 was omitted. Tower House finds a small gapbetween 3 and
7 to build a new structure. It’s not No.5.The new tower fills the numerical gap. But the mystery remains.
5th elevation
When designing the Sydney Opera House Utzonspoke of the fifth facade, knowing that the roof will be the part of thebuilding that dominates the view from the Harbour Bridge and the tall buildingsnearby.
The street front is no longer the publicface of our buildings. Google Earth has made the roof the public face of ourbuildings, accessible to anyone at anytime. We can now easily see all of themess that
has been hidden on the rooftop. What wasonce hidden is now fully displayed. With this in mind we deliberately designedTower House so that it looked beautiful from the sky and from Google Earth.
开放的社交
整个设计反思现在私人用地堆起越来越高栅栏的做法，希望营造一个开放但是拥有隐私的空间，前院公共菜园可以邀请邻居进来，主体建筑背面的后面更多是隐私空间。
It’s all about community
Increasingly our houses are overly concernedwith privacy. Fences are getting higher and we are turning our backs to ourneighbours. It’s starting to look less like house and garden and more likecompound
and security. What’s happening toneighbourhood and community? Tower House can be both. The front yard is now acommunal vegetable patch. Neighbours are invited to help themselves and, ifthey wish, do a
little gardening from time to time. Therest of the garden has a high fence around it, however you can see through thefence and, importantly the fences can be left open wide. With streets on bothsides of
Tower House neighbours can use the gardenas a short cut and grab a few veggies on the way through. With the gates wideopen the line between public and private starts to get blurred.
男孩的图书馆
给男孩准备的图书馆主要垂直发展，整个墙面都满满的装上书，空中挂上休息网供孩子攀爬，玩乐，同时业主也足期待自己的孩子可以在这里阅读，思考。
The Net
Australia is wide and flat. As a result ourhomes are wide and flat. Our HOUSE House project explored the idea of creatinga vertical home, in contrast to the typical Australian home. The boy’s studio
pushes this idea further. It is a whollyvertical space with a bookshelf running from floor to ceiling. The boys desksare at the base of the studio, where they can studiously work. Hanging withinthis tall
space is a net where the boys can read, andcontemplate with a view to the street and a view to the backyard. The boysstudy is designed to inspire the boys as they grow and learn.
女孩的图书馆
给女孩准备的图书馆隐藏在花草丛中，十分安静，室内用色较深，显出沉静的一面。
Her library
S’ library is a place of thought andcontemplation. Slightly submerged, the desk is almost buried in the garden.Lined with dark spotted gum the library has an age and a wisdom that is incontrast to the
playful contemplation of the boys study.
厨房上空
可以爬到厨房上空，上面铺设了人造草
His spot
P has a sneaky spot in the roof space abovethe kitchen. Lined in synthetic grass with nothing more than a banana lounge and a book P’s spot it a hideawaywithin the centre of the house.
可适应性与可持续性
这个“村落”的设计能够长期适应家庭成员的成长和变化，甚至考虑到当小孩子长大离开家以后的情况。滑动门板可以轻松将大空间变成小空间，能够让小空间汇聚成为大空间。
此外可持续性不仅仅体现在对生活的适应性上，该住宅项目还积极利用太阳，采用双层玻璃和高绝缘材料，利用自然通风，利用中水，实现能源的可持续性。
Cha-cha-cha-changes
Tower House is a long-term family home. Theboys will be adults when (if) they leave. The house can easily adapt from beinga shared family home to being two separate zones with distinct entries. Withinthe
original house we have hidden slidingpanels which allow the large shared rooms to be divided into small. A varietyof different activities can take place, whether shared or private. It’s thebest of both
worlds.
SUSTAINABLE?
Like all of our buildings, sustainabilityis at the core of Tower House. Rather than simply extruding the existingstructure we have run the new form along the southern boundary so that it issoaked with
sunlight. The openings and windows havebeen designed to optimise passive solar gain, thereby drastically reducingdemands on mechanical heating and cooling. All windows are double glazed. Whiteroofs
drastically reduce urban heat sink and heattransfer internally. Need for air-conditioning is eliminated through activemanagement of shade, and flow through ventilation. Water tanks have their placeas they
do on all of our projects. High performanceinsulation is everywhere, even in the walls of the original house.
ARCHITECT:
Andrew Maynard Architects
www.maynardarchitects.com
Directors:
Mark Austin and Andrew Maynard
Design Architect:
Andrew Maynard
Project Architect:
Mark Austin
Site / Floor Area:
Site area - 500m2, floor area 225m2
Completion date:
March 2014
Builder:
Overend Constructions
http://www.overendconstructions.com.au
Engineer:
Maurice Farrugia and Associates
GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE
Garden design:
Bush Projects and Andrew Maynard Architects
Plant selection:
Bush Projects
www.bushprojects.com.au
Landscape contractor:
Lucida Landscapes
www.lucidalandscapes.com
PHOTOGRAPHER
-Peter Bennetts Studio /studio@peterbennetts.com
“Tower House is simply lovely with a nod to the whimsical and is allthe fun a house can be. Understanding, materiality, detail, community andenvironment are all handled deftly. I loved my day
photographing Tower House. Thank-you andCheers, Peter Bennetts”
via：gooood.hk
