[Music] there are a lot of Quebec barns that are being torn down in the area Margaux who is the client here and Peter had been documenting them photographing them and also painting them the beams you see the exterior cladding a lot of it is salvaged from torn down barns in the area and also in Ontario that were brought here and to make this remake this new building [Music] the barn is on a giant field which is a working farm so the idea that the whole thing is motivated around this square shaped fenced in enclosure so we took that idea of house and equipment going in and out of the building and we repurposed it toward views of the landscape one of them was the back 40 so if you look out this window over here you can kind of see it would be all out barley winter rye those kinds of crops over on on the other side here you see these beautiful horses that are grazing in a fenced-in area on this side there’s kind of just where the trees stop on the ridge there’s an opening and that’s actually where we sighted the kitchen window and there’s the one of you kind of up towards the sky which is the one up the stair when you’re in the interstitial spaces between the buildings in a sense you should feel like you’re kind of an outdoor indoor space that’s why there’s a brick floor in those areas it feels more kind of functional and rougher on the interior of these buildings everything is very kind of white they’re not fussed like they’re very simple and true to the scale of a barn one of the purposes for this house was so that the client could have their whole extended family stay in the house at the same time so the bunk room that we designed it has the ability to increase that number by four and it’s quite comfortable cuz the client she’s an artist and she’s involved in painting the landscapes around the area I think she’s especially sensitive to what the land would look like so this it was very important that this kind of sit properly in the landscape and that it would look like it’s been here for a hundred years [Music]
