Stable (BE)

Studio Farris Architects has transformed a small barn into an office with meeting room, library, office desks and a resting/reading area.
The original façade of this award-winning project was restored and new openings were created in a functional way.
A new volume with the same shape of the original building was inserted. This box-in-box system allows to improve energy efficiency and avoid any chemical reactions with sulfates in the soil and walls of the original farm. Instead of adding a second floor to the existing building, which would change the perception of the whole space, an autonomous furniture object was placed in the space, referring to the original farm and rural area.
This extra object, made out of stacked up wooden beams, transforms the space in a very functional office. Because of
the manner in which the beams are stacked, a variety of areas was created. The stacked beams become library, bookshelves, storage and resting and reading corners. The beams were stacked in this particular way so that you can climb the stairs to the upper workspace, and can easily reach the different bars on each level.