"这座获奖的房屋位于一个占地8英亩前城市地产上，该处地产坐落在旧金山湾附近的奥克兰山（Oakland Hills）脚下。对景观，气候，文化以及场地现有用途和模式的密切观察与客户减轻环境挑战的使命融合在一起。

从技术上讲，这是一座改造房，它将现有房屋的占地面积用作新的平面图的基础。现有的壁炉被用混凝土包裹起来，作为锚固新建筑的主要结构元素。这样避免了额外的坡度，并使山坡保持开阔和自然。

它还将新房屋直接置于几棵旧橡树的阴影下，并与周围的树木形成了密不可分的关系。

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"This award-winning home is located on an eight acre, ex-urban property at the base of the Oakland Hills near San Francisco Bay. Formed of concrete and wrapped with Corten steel panels, the net zero energy residence is an elegant, low maintenance response to its context which is draped in rich green foliage and majestic native oak trees. Dense observation of the landscape, climate, culture, and existing uses and patterns of the site were integrated with the client's mission to mitigate environmental challenges.

Technically a remodel, the house utilized the footprint of the existing house as a basis for a new floor plan. An existing fireplace was wrapped in concrete to serve as a major structural element anchoring the new architecture. This avoided additional grading and left the hillside open and natural.

It also placed the new home directly under the shade of the old oaks, in intimate relationship with the trees surrounding it.

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