Barn InspiredGrand Design

Rural sites call for a building that sits quietly in the landscape. Here, a long, simple pitched form in warm brick and clay tile borrows the language of the farmstead, with an oak-framed glazed entrance standing in for the traditional threshing door.

The plan is long and linear, so every principal room faces the garden and open countryside. A deep oak porch frames the arrival and shades the glazing, and a glazed link connects to a second wing around a sunken terrace.

Renders at dusk and in full sun let the client test the massing, the materials and how the house would look from the lane and from the fields.