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Stealth Barn by Carl Turner Architects
Oriented strand board lines every wall, floor and ceiling inside this residential barn extension in Norfolk, England, by London studio Carl Turner Architects.
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Black-stained timber clads the exterior of the gabled building, named Stealth Barn, and it sits perpendicular to a larger brick barn that the architects previously converted into a residence.
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The interior is divided into rooms that allow it function as a guest house, although the clients also use the barn as a meeting place or studio.
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Above: photograph is by Carl Turner
The OSB surfaces are intended to be reminiscent of the straw bales that fill the barns of many farms nearby.
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Above: photograph is by Carl Turner
Another project we've featured from the agricultural landscape of Norfolk is an extension to a mill-keeper’s house - see it here.
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Photography is by Tim Crocker, apart from where otherwise stated.
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Stealth Barn- Carl Turner Architects
Stealth Barn is a project that sits next to and complements Ochre Barn, a large threshing barn converted by CTA to a home and studio.
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This addition was to provide a self-contained unit that could equally act as a guest house, studio or meeting place, depending on time of year and workloads: a retreat, but also a place of inspiration, enjoyment and a place of work and home without compromising the experience of either.
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Above: photograph is by Jeremy Phillips
Sitting in the exposed expanse of the Cambridgeshire fens, it is a bold, simple form, reminiscent of the barn it accompanies.
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Above: photograph is by Jeremy Phillips
Placed perpendicular to the existing barn, it stands to create and define a slightly more sheltered and casual garden which melts into the fens. This clear and simple move also hints at the memory of a former farm yard.
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Above: photograph is by Jeremy Phillips
Stealth Barn pays respect to the form of the agricultural context but contrasts with the traditional barn. Stealth Barn is a sharp black mass – a shadow of the adjacent barn or a silhouette on the horizon.
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It is a robust exteriorwrapped with a restricted palette, devoid of fussy detail, and formed to withstand its exposed position.
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On the interior, this toughness is inverted through the inclusion of a warmer OSB; it wraps fully around the space to form angles reminiscent of the adjacent barns divided with straw bales.
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Above: photograph is by Carl Turner
It also creates an immersive interior landscape with spaces simply disected in a semi open-plan manner to create compartments.
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Each room has aspects overlooking the fields which, although open, are very much seen through and out of this interior, providing a sense of protection and warmth.
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The arrangement of the main spaces into simple pockets is key to facilitating the barn’s multifunctional use - for it to become both a bedroom and a meeting room, a dining room and a studio space. It can be all of these things equally without ever feeling overly domestic or of business.
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Stealth Barn is a project instigated and overseen by Carl Turner Architects.
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We have acted as developer Architects and, in turn, the project has allowed the office scope to experiment, learn and test ideas.
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It was completed at the end of August 2011.
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