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Studio InSitu Architects
Studio InSitu Architects
Studio InSitu Architects
Studio InSitu Architects
Studio InSitu Architects
Studio InSitu Architects
Studio InSitu Architects
Studio InSitu Architects
Studio InSitu Architects
Studio InSitu Architects

Party Barn

Lincoln, MA

build

builder: Colonial Barn Restoration

 

design:

Tim Hess, David Chase, Chip Dewing 

all for DSA Architects

 

Thom Wirth Landscape Arhitect

Manuel deSantaren Interior Decorator

Kitchens by Kochman, Reidt + Haigh

Chris Ripman Lighting Designer

 

 

Photographer: Richard Mandelkorn
 

This project re-organizes an 1849 barn's interior spaces with a layered series of lofts, bridges, and catwalks composed around a centralized gathering and performance space - all below a large new light monitor / cupola.  The space serves as a larger alternative to the small present living and dining rooms in the clients' adjacent antique home. The barn will accommodate extra guests, and serve as a general recreation and relaxation space.

Above the largely sound stone foundation, re-construction was comprehensive. Much of the timber was re-designed and re-built to accommodate new lofts and cupola. The former exterior wall plane was restored in-place for the warmth and character of the original materials, and then wrapped in an 8-inch blanket of insulation, the whole thing then sealed inside modern building-wrap, new clapboards, and thermal windows.

 

The 12 foot square barn doors were re-built and supplemented with glazed and screened companions. On the primary side, visitors can be welcomed emphatically with a quazi-ceremonial rolling-open of the massive doors, or one can sneak in via the "girl-scout door".

 

 

 

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