Twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry re-imag­i­na­tion of a twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry agri­cul­tur­al barn

A strate­gic plan­ning process secured per­mit­ted devel­op­ment rights to con­vert this steel framed barn into five deluxe homes, blend­ing con­tem­po­rary design with the char­ac­ter of its agri­cul­tur­al past.

We seized the oppor­tu­ni­ty to design and deliv­er a bold­ly con­tem­po­rary scheme unlike any­thing pre­vi­ous­ly seen in the area. Draw­ing inspi­ra­tion from Scan­di­na­vian design prin­ci­ples, we cre­at­ed a new com­mu­ni­ty of five imag­i­na­tive, larch-clad mod­ern homes, now mel­lowed to sil­ver grey they sit com­fort­ably with­in their rur­al setting.

Each home was designed ​‘upside down’ in response to the exist­ing barn’s posi­tion with­in a basin and into a bank­ing. Locat­ing the main liv­ing accom­mo­da­tion at first-floor lev­el allowed us to take full advan­tage of roof-lit, vault­ed ceil­ings, enhanc­ing the sense of space and open­ness. Stor­age was inte­grat­ed wher­ev­er pos­si­ble to pro­mote a clean, min­i­mal­ist aes­thet­ic, reflect­ing the over­all interior.

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