BLAIR BARN HOUSE
LOCATION
Blair, United States
CATEGORY
Adaptive Reuse
Text description provided by architect.
Alchemists live in the Midwest and we love barns. Our clients love barns. Everyone loves barns.
Imagine a house that takes all the great things about barns, and leaves the rest for the cows?
Alchemy designed a house that takes all its clues from the 19th century, but updates them for the 21st Century.
This project features typical barn siding with light filtering through a few large openings, a sleeping loft and bedrooms in the cellar.
One in steel, the other in ash strips, they provide under-and over spaces like a hayloft.
There is also a "barn space", an open 2-story room with two volumes inserted within.
