翠湖苑，蒲種，雪蘭莪，馬來西亞

1 后巷作為社區公園和人行通道使用/The back lane is dressed as a communal garden and pedestrian way

翠湖苑坐落于吉隆坡的外圍，是一個封閉的住宅小區。位置緊鄰湖泊，占地面積23.5hm2。設計者認識到人們對更加優質城市住宅的需要，主旨也是要開發一個不僅有住宅、也有適宜環境的規劃項目，使這里成為每個人都能稱之為家的地方。

設計構思由湖泊得到啟發，將熱帶花園融入了包含帶狀公園與成排住宅之間綠帶的規劃中，這些帶狀元素又與湖邊的休息廣場相連。小區入口處佇立著安保室，周邊也有安全保障措施。因此，其中所有的獨棟住宅都不再設圍欄，這也鼓勵了居住者之間的互動，并促進了整個居住社區的互助氣氛。

入口大道作為花園主軸“打開”了整座小區，并延伸至整個住宅區。駕駛汽車從安保室沿大道繼續向前行駛，由帶狀公園和綠帶形成的一個個開放的“口袋”空間將逐一展開，在人們眼中呈現出豐富多樣的景觀。各種花園交疊變化的景觀結束于臨湖休憩廣場寬敞的開放空間。這一連串的體驗也會在獨棟住宅的設計中以住宅結合花園設計的方式得到再現。

通往各居住單元的道路蜿蜒曲折，使住宅單元反復出現的笛卡爾坐標系形式顯得更為柔和，同時也完善了花園的設計概念。在道路的交叉口和轉彎處都設有鋪地，道路盡端封閉也讓道路主軸變得更為安全。為了推動鄰里社區及各個花園的連續一貫，有鋪地的人行步道和花園從住宅單元的前方穿過，然后由住宅后巷貫通整個地塊。

居住設計的表現手法是現代主義的，其設計核心則是適應熱帶地區的。住宅區室外氛圍清新、輪廓清爽、線條彎曲柔和，每個單元的建筑體量則通過設計延伸的墻面、厚薄不均的墻體、不同形式的壁柱以及深度的懸挑等元素得到消解。□（徐知蘭 譯）

2 總平面/Site plan

3 朝向湖泊的單元/Lake fronting units

4 朝向帶狀花園的起居室/The living room faces the Linear garden

5 帶狀花園/The Linear Garden

At the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Lake Edge is a gated residential neighbourhood within a 58 acres land that borders a lake. Recognising the need for better urban homes, the idea is to develop a planning programme that not only provide houses but a proper living environment where one may call a home.

Taking design cues from the lake, the concept incorporates the tropical garden into the planning with linear parks and green strips between housing rows that connect to an esplanade at the edge of the lake. A guardhouse stands vigilant at the main entrance of the neighbourhood and with the perimeter of the whole development secured, the individual houses make do without fences, in turn encouraging interaction and nurturing a close-knit,neighbourly community.

An entrance boulevard that acts as the garden spine 'opens up' and expands the neighbourhood.Driving down the boulevard from the guardhouse,different views present themselves from 'pockets' of open spaces created by the linear parks and green strips. This progression of parks then terminates at the lake esplanade with the wide open spaces of the lake. This sequential experience would also repeat itself in the design of the individual houses in the manner which the gardens are brought into the houses.

Access roads to the residential units are curvilinear and meander that soften the repetitive Cartesian forms of the housing units and complements the garden concept. The roads are paved at its junctions and bends that then end in cul-de-sacs that allow the road spine to be safer. To promote the continuity of the neighbourhood and its parks, paved pedestrian walkways and gardens run in front of the residential units and the backlanes throughout the whole development.

The expression of the residential design is modern but the gist is tropical. The exterior is crisp, clean cut and stream lined where the mass of each unit is broken down by means of extended wall planes, different wall thickness, different wall columns and deep overhangs.□