This 1900's barn project re-organizes the lower level standard bays into an expansive catering kitchen with dining room, neighboring gym and bathroom. The kitchen will accommodate food-centric functions and events in the main barn space, and serve as an additional entertaining space for the family. Much of the timber was re-designed and re-built to accommodate the new program. The interior wall planes will be restored in-place for the warmth and character of the original ma

This addition to a 1920s grambrel-style cottage house adds studio space and an open bedroom suite for the two working artist residents. The gestural massing and the composition of opaque and transparent wall planes bias the interiors' relationships to greenspace and the horizon to the South and West, and away from the activity of nearby neighbors and car traffic to the North and East.