erasmus fairbairn architects

The brief was simple — something fitting for a polo estate. The response: two contemporary barns, deconstructed and reimagined.

 

The barns have open deconstructed trusses with volumes that lift the soul. They are put back together with black steel plates that contrast against the French oak ceilings. Glass contrasts with rough cement-coated brickwork and concrete, light and dark defining spaces, while oak and charcoal screed floors play a different game of the same sort. Contemporary interventions jut through the barns where needed, leaving the roofs free from anything that might block the continuous flow of space.

 

Roof gardens bring the landscape to the upper level — one steps onto grass directly from the main bedroom, indigenous grasses and trees screening the cottage beyond in a clever interplay of privacy and connection.

 

A house designed whole — architecture, interiors, landscape — unified by a single intention.