Church Barn House

-1998

The concrete block structure was previously a barn and then a church before we converted it to a residence. A well trod arced path in the site's original northern field provided the dynamic geometry that located the new garage and redefined the house interior. The churchbarn was a solid presence of concrete block walls and a bolted truss roof which we kept as the shell into which we introduced natural ventilation and daylight. All materials were honed - the concrete block shell was sand blasted to give a weathered stone appearance, concrete floors throughout the house were pigmented in warm hues as was the dominant interior masonite wall.