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The Barns Family Home
13 Mar 2020
The Barns Family Home in Southern England
Design: AR Design Studio, Architects
Location: Southern England, UK
Plans have been approved for the The Barns? transformation into an elegant and contemporary five bedroom family home by RIBA award winning architects AR Design Studio.

Set within a medieval village in the British countryside, the house was once owned by Victorian farmer designed to overlook the farm and complex of barns. No longer a working farm, the house remained a family home however the associated barns have since fallen into a state of disrepair, leaving one of the barns to be considered a Building at Risk (BAR). That said the Grade II listed estate steeped in historic character was not lost, and became the driving force in the sensitive restoration and additions proposed by AR Design Studio. Practice Director, Andy Ramus, immediately recognised the property?s potential and saw past its dilapidated state. The practice ethos There is a firm belief at AR Design Studio that design constraints and restrictions can often create the most interesting solutions. As such, the concept was to conserve the existing fabric while making any new additions simple and pure in order to enhance the original character.
The property consists of four disconnected elements: The house, two barns and the central courtyard. The brief was to unify, modernise an...