- JEFFREY LANDMAN DESIGNS - OBJECT - ROOM - BUILDING - TEXT -
B.05
Barn House
Type:
Private Residential, Passivhaus Standard
Location:
Kerhonkson, NY
Status:
In Construction
Team:
MDB, Firetower Engineering, Baukraft Engineering
Date:
2021-2023
Role:
Sole Designer
Barn House sits at the head of an old grazing meadow. It describes and resolves three formative tensions.
Firstly, it acknowledges the client’s conflicting programmatic desires: on the one hand for an intimate dwelling and on the other for a container that can host their extended family.
Secondly, the building takes seriously the formal and structural relationships between the gable, the eave, and the porch.
Thirdly, it balances a high-performance energy efficiency requirement with an openness to the site.
The house therefore contains two worlds: an open plan ground floor which the client can occupy in solitude, and an extended dormitory under the pitched roof. Rather than connecting these two floors, the stairs express and exacerbate their difference.
While the porch is typically understood, formally and structurally, as an addition, Barn House thinks of the porch as the eave’s negative space; this requires a balancing act with the visual and structural stability of the building’s gable ends, and produces a surprising variety of sections.
Passive house construction standards require a super-insulated, air-tight building with windows optimized to control solar gains. But the Barn House also wants to open to the uninterupted visual and physical experience of the meadow. The depth of the porches and the size and position of the windows is carefully calibrated to achieve both these ends.
01. approach
02. covered entrance
03. kitchen
04. dining
05. stairwell
06. stairway
07. stair detail
08. stair landing
09. upper hall
10. under construction
11. under construction
01. site plan
02. porch concept collage
03. massing axon
04. barnhouse genealogy
05. level 1 plan
06. level 2 plan
07. east elevation
08. east section aa
09. east section bb10. east section cc
11. east section dd 12. east section ee
13. south section
14. north section
15. typical wall section
16. energy modelling + comfort analysis
17. stair construction logic
B.05
BARN HOUSE
Type:
Private Residential, Passivhaus Standard
Location:
Kerhonkson, NY
Status:
In Construction
Team:
MDB, Firetower Engineering, Baukraft Engineering
Date:
2021-2023
Role:
Sole Designer
Barn House sits at the head of an old grazing meadow. It describes and resolves three formative tensions.
Firstly, it acknowledges the client’s conflicting programmatic desires: on the one hand for an intimate dwelling and on the other for a container that can host their extended family.
Secondly, the building takes seriously the formal and structural relationships between the gable, the eave, and the porch.
Thirdly, it balances a high-performance energy efficiency requirement with an openness to the site.
The house therefore contains two worlds: an open plan ground floor which the client can occupy in solitude, and an extended dormitory under the pitched roof. Rather than connecting these two floors, the stairs express and exacerbate their difference.
While the porch is typically understood, formally and structurally, as an addition, Barn House thinks of the porch as the eave’s negative space; this requires a balancing act with the visual and structural stability of the building’s gable ends, and produces a surprising variety of sections.
Passive house construction standards require a super-insulated, air-tight building with windows optimized to control solar gains. But the Barn House also wants to open to the uninterupted visual and physical experience of the meadow. The depth of the porches and the size and position of the windows is carefully calibrated to achieve both these ends.
01. approach
02. covered entrance
03. kitchen
04. dining
05. stairwell
06. stairway
07. stair detail
02. covered entrance
03. kitchen
04. dining
05. stairwell
06. stairway
07. stair detail
08. stair landing
09. upper hall
10. structural model
11. stair model
12. under construction
10. structural model
11. stair model
12. under construction
13. under construction
01. site plan
02. porch concept collage
03. massing axon
04. barnhouse genealogy
05. level 1 plan
04. barnhouse genealogy
05. level 1 plan
06. level 2 plan
07. east elevation
08. east section aa
09. east section bb10. east section cc
11. east section dd 12. east section ee
13. south section
14. north section
15. typical wall section
16. energy modelling + comfort analysis
17. stair construction logic
07. east elevation
08. east section aa
09. east section bb10. east section cc
11. east section dd 12. east section ee
13. south section
14. north section
15. typical wall section
16. energy modelling + comfort analysis
17. stair construction logic