Good morning.

早上好。

In the last few lectures I've been talking about the history of domestic building construction.

在前几次课里，我一直在谈论国内建筑构造的历史。

But today I want to begin looking at some contemporary, experimental designs for housing.

但今天，我想开始看一些对于住宅的现代、实验性的设计。

So, I'm going to start with a house which is constructed more or less under the ground.

因此，我会从一个或多或少建在地底的房子开始。

And one of the interesting things about this project is that the owners - both professionals but not architects - wanted to be closely involved, so they decided to manage the project themselves.

这个项目趣事之一是业主们希望密切参与，他们是从业者但非设计师，于是他们决定自己管理该项目。

Their chief aim was to create somewhere that was as environmentally-friendly as possible.

他们的主要目的是要创造出尽可能环保的地方。

But at the same time they wanted to live somewhere peaceful - they'd both grown up in a rural area and disliked urban life.

但同时，他们也想要生活在一个平和的地方，他们都在乡村的地方成长，也不喜欢城市生活。

So the first thing they did was to look for a site.

所以他们做的第一件事是找个地方。

And they found a disused stone quarry in a beautiful area.

他们在一个美丽的地方找到一处废弃的采石场。

The price was relatively low, and they liked the idea of recycling the land, as it were.

价格相对低廉，而且他们喜欢以土地原有的形式再次利用的想法。

As it was, the quarry was an ugly blot on the landscape, and it wasn't productive any longer, either.

事实上，采石场是风景里一个丑陋的污点，它也不再有任何生产效率。