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玻璃住宅建在4000平方米的基址之上，占地面积2500平方米。主人希望设计师可以设计出一套从房间的各个角度都可以欣赏到室外花园的美景，布局开敞、充满阳光、魅力迷人的现代住宅。

建筑南曲北直，平面呈马蹄形。道路铺设从住宅区主入口到住宅大门逐渐升高，可以瞥见室内的布局，甚至还可以看到公园内的美景，住宅另一侧围绕着美丽的水景。

住宅主入口上方的雨棚采用不锈钢玻璃结构，这样可以清晰看到室内的不锈钢玻璃旋梯，悬梯下为可调节水温的泳池，（夏季到来常常起到室内温度调节作用，尤其在冬季可以作为大型集热装置）下有横梁支撑。

雨棚右侧有座小型休息室，左侧采用实木升降系统。餐厅在卧室上方，采用6米高的曲形玻璃幕，弯曲程度依次递增，形成了可旋转的弧形玻璃结构。

家人共聚的起居室是座两层通高的休息空间，起居室内部连接走道，可调温泳池和吧台，吧台上放有供烧烤使用各种设备。
厨房紧靠起居室，通过自动喷砂门通向餐厅。厨房旁连接了早餐室和游戏房，可以方便孩子们用餐。

起居室和卧室之间的中庭可以用来通风和房间自然降温。一旦触动警铃，卷帘门将自动降下，把两层分隔成两个防火分区。
起居室和吧台的墙壁采用大理石块材铺设而成，块材之间铺设有辅助灯槽。

来到这里，你可以从主卧跳进游泳池，然后径直游到体育馆，再经过螺旋梯回到主卧，或者坐在酒吧高脚凳上休憩小酌一番。

室内外水体通过开敞的平台连接，最终流进底层儿童泳池。地下停车场可以容纳12辆小车，可以欣赏泳池周边美景，同时车库和电梯之间的通道布局自然，形成顶部均匀采光的画廊。

居住空间对面是景观墙体，用以色列石材铺面，景观墙前种植芦荟。石材均来自拥有百年历史的已经拆除的以色列老房子。这样的石材同样被使用在餐厅当中，从透明玻璃墙伸到建筑外部。

上楼后还可以看到一个玻璃盒子形状的书房，从这里能够清晰看到下层泳池。旁边是一座大型活动用房，里面还有配套的房间影院和小型厨房，房间末端是大型阳台，通过画廊可以到达客厅另一侧的主卧。

主卧外的大平台添加了不错的遮阳设施，居住者从这里可以欣赏美丽的朝阳和日落，登上直达屋顶的旋梯，便可以饱览中兰德绚丽的小镇风光。

盥洗间也采用全玻璃设计：东部和北部的墙体采用可开启窗体，即使有些部分需要考虑私密性，仍然可以采光通风，从外面看起来依旧是全透明的。

室内泳池上方的两层高中庭可以从儿童房外的阳台进入，和泳池上方的气流形成联通，从而保证房间良好通风。
另一侧阳台上的门扇打开后也能俯瞰卧室中的两层通高空间，从而构成了另一部分的通风设施。

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Description by Nico Van Der Meulen Architects :
The house is situated on a 4000 sq.m site, with a total floor area of 2500sq.m. The owner requested a modern, glamorous, open plan, light-filled house with views from all rooms into the garden.

The shape on the south side is a half circle, forming a horseshoe on the north side. Approaching the house from the gate the driveway is elevated to allow glimpses thru’ the house to the garden and raised water feature on the other side of the house.

The porte cochere is a suspended glass and stainless steel structure, with view into the house and a stainless steel and glass staircase, suspended over a heated pond, (which in summer acts as a temperature stabilizer, and in winter as a giant heater) with a circular, raised glass water feature in the background, framed by a beam two storeys high.

To the right is a small sunken formal lounge, and to the left a timber-clad lift tower. The dining room is raised a couple of steps above the family room. The window to the dining room is a 6m high curved glass enclosure, where each sheet of glass leans over further than the previous sheet, with glass fins holding it in position.

The frameless glass folding doors starts at the dining room, and stretches for nearly 70m around the dining room, family room, lanai, indoor pool and gym.

The family room is partially double volume, flowing seamlessly into the lanai and heated indoor pool, with a bar, pizza oven, gas and wood braai.

The kitchen leads off the family room and dining room, with a pair of automatic, frameless sandblasted doors leading from the dining room to the kitchen. A breakfast area and playroom are adjacent to the kitchen, allowing the younger kids to be supervised from the kitchen and family room, and allowing direct access to the bar and barbeque area from the kitchen.

An atrium between the family room and the kitchen allows the family to ventilate and cool the house naturally, without compromising their security, while a roller shutter door drops down automatically when the alarm is activated, cutting the top floor off from the ground floor.

The walls to the family room and bar is clad with marble strips, with glass inlays and LED strip lights.
You can jump from the main bedroom into the pool, swim to the gym, swim back and use the steel spiral staircase to go back to the main bedroom , or tip a tipsy friend into the pool from his barstool!

The lanai opens up totally to the outdoor pool with a deck, spilling into a kid’s splash pool at the bottom.A basement under the house have parking for about 12 cars, with a view into the pool, and a top-lit art gallery which forms the passage between the garages and the lift.

A feature wall opposite the living areas is clad in stone from Jerusalem, with a tree aloe growing in front of it. The stone comes from buildings hundreds of years old, being demolished in Israel to make space for development. The same stone is used in the dining room, flowing thru’ the glass wall to the outside.

The study is a glass box at the top of the staircase, with a view over the pools at the bottom. A large playroom is situated next to it, with an intimate home theater and kitchenette, leading to a large balcony with a shaded porch. The main bedroom on the other side of the hall is reached via a gallery looking down into the dining room and out to the garden.

The main suite has a small lounge and built-in kitchenette, with a drop-down screen and projector built into the bulkhead.

The main bathroom is a study in glass and transparency: The North and east walls are glass and slides open, even if privacy is required, the doors can be left open and the automatic blinds can be lowered, still allowing views and ventilation, but looking translucent from outside.

A large balcony off the main bedroom is partially covered, granting respite from the summer sun, or allowing all fresco early morning coffee or late afternoon drinks, while a staircase to the roof allows views over the surrounding suburb and towards Midrand.

The double volume glass enclosure over the pool can be opened from the balcony outside the children’s bedrooms, allowing a cooling updraft over the pool.

From another balcony the door overlooking the double volume in the family room can be opened, again resulting in a cooling chimney effect to the living areas.