荷兰希尔弗瑟姆Diependaal的12座隔音堤住宅

这12栋房子作为Hilversum的林中高档住宅区域和从Diependaal来的二级公路防噪音路堤融为一体。虽然基地环境不那么优越，甲方在一开始也抱有怀疑态度，此设计带有未来感而非幻想感的设计还是吸引了住户。他们在看到设计图纸后就当即买下。而建成则是几年之后的事情了。

The twelve houses form an integral part of a soundproof embankment along a secondary road from Diependaal, an exclusive residential district in the woods of Hilversum. Despite its inhospitable setting and the clients’ initial scepticism, the futuristic, not to say fantastic, design of the houses attracted users who bought their houses of the drawing board, several years before delivery.

没有这个房屋屏障让环境噪音降到可以接受的范围内，Diependaal其余城市设计规划将永不见天日。房屋防噪屏障在甲方看来可以说是种先天利他主义残疾。不过这种先天残疾又印证了Nio和他的团队的非典型方案的独到优越之处。例如，处理背面的黑暗的解决方案将二楼客厅悬挑出去。不是每个人都认为缺少花园是一个缺点。比如即便是在郊区，露台也可以是销售卖点的争论点。

Without what is in effect a screen of houses, allowing the level of ambient noise to be brought down to acceptable limits, the rest of the urban design plan for Diependaal would never have seen the light of day. The project’s congenital, altruistic handicap justified the atypical solutions eventually proposed by Nio and his associates in the face of the client’s reservations. So for example the answer to the darkness at the back of the plot was to cantilever out the living room at the first floor level. Moreover, not everyone considers the lack of a garden to be a drawback, and a terrace can be a sales argument, even in suburbia.

在Hilversum，就像任何如梦境般的环境里，房子可以同时像岩洞和巨人。当你看到两排相对的公寓往往会联想到此比喻。所有路过的居民都是探险者，受到有毒射线的威胁，怀念和平的未受污染的自然之地。只有痴迷于美国亚文化和悲观主义预言极少数新现代主义的建筑师，才敢公开谴责。

In Hilversum, as in any fantastic setting, a house can be both a cavern and a giant, a term that could just as easily refer to the block of flats opposite. The residents are all explorers who are just passing through, threatened by poisonous rays and nostalgic for a place of peace and unspoiled nature that only a handful of neo-modernistic architects, obsessed by the American subculture and pessimistic prophecies, still dare to denounce publicly.’

地址: Charley Tooropstraat, Hilversum,荷兰

设计单位: VHP s+a+l 与 NIO建筑事务所（NIO architecten）

客户: Slokker Vastgoed bv

建筑承包商: Slokker Bouwgroep bv

结构工程师: Adviesbureau Steens

设计团队: Remco Arnold, Eric Lucas, Maurice Nio, Jaakko van ’t Spijker

设计起始时间: 1997年

竣工时间: 2001年

工程造价: € 1.495.450欧元

Address: Charley Tooropstraat, Hilversum, Holland

Design: Vhp s+a+l/Nio Architecten

Client: Slokker Vastgoed Bv

Contractor: Slokker Bouwgroep Bv

Structural Engineer: Adviesbureau Steens

Design Team: Remco Arnold, Eric Lucas, Maurice Nio, Jaakko Van ’t Spijker

Start Design: 1997

Completion: 2001

Costs: € 1.495.450,00