Art Barn
Coastal North Carolina
Located within the context of a coastal farm, the Art Barn is designed to be a functioning studio and gallery for a painter. Attempting to merge with its locale, the project acknowledges the typical outbuilding of the region, the tobacco barn. Although programmatically different, the building abstracts and reinterprets the materials as well as formal elements of the building type with a modern approach. Constructed from a built-up nominal lumber superstructure, the simple gable building with a “lean-to” shed attached is clad with a galvanized 5V roof and siding wrapper. Balloon framed end walls are sheathed with a composition of green rolled asphalt and corrugated fiberglass, while roll-up glass doors allow access to exterior space under a roof tied down with chains. Internally, sliding barn doors allow flexibility to the lower work spaces and direct visitors upstairs to the clerestory-lit gallery.
