Structure studio Bindloss Dawes has created a storage and workshop named Autobarn on a Georgian property in Somerset, UK, to accommodate a set of basic Porsches.
Designed to seem like a barn, the five-bay storage and adjoining workshop stand alongside a Grade-II listed, 18th-century house on the outskirts of a village in Somerset.
Bindloss Dawes designed the 165-square-metre construction to comprise the proprietor’s assortment of basic vehicles and likewise as an area to renovate them.
The constructing’s kind and timber-lattice cladding is knowledgeable by barns within the surrounding countryside, with the goal of becoming in with the neighbouring listed home.
“Our goal was to create a constructing that appeared elegant and acquainted at first look, however then opened as much as reveal one thing stunning and surprising,” mentioned Bindloss Dawes director Oliver Bindloss.
“Utilizing the barn typology helped us to attain this, creating easy timber types that you simply may look forward to finding all through the countryside, however then introducing some theatre with the large sliding doorways, opening up the constructing to disclose the automotive assortment inside.”
The constructing is cut up into two pitched volumes organized at proper angles to kind an L-shaped plan.
Every of the constructions is constructed with a concrete basis supporting a metal body, which was colored pale inexperienced and left seen inside the buildings. Skylights run alongside the highest of each volumes.
“A pure, pragmatic palette of timber, metal, concrete and recycled wooden strand board mix to create a sense of serenity and cleanliness,” mentioned the studio.
“Their quiet tones permit the fleet of basic vehicles to turn into the main focus.”
The five-bay storage has two entrances – a three-bay-wide, two-leaf sliding glass door that gives important entry, set beside a single-bay, retractable metal safety door. They’re each disguised by a sliding floor-to-ceiling timber display that blends into the constructing and supplies photo voltaic shading.
Inside the workshop house, Bindloss Dawes created a mezzanine examine above a timber device retailer with a washbasin and a small rest room.
Bindloss Dawes designed the storage in order that it may very well be transformed into a house at a later date. It has underfloor heating powered by an air supply warmth pump, whereas first repair companies are hidden behind the storage’s inside wall panelling.
Different garages just lately featured on Dezeen embrace a Fifties construction in Edinburgh overhauled by structure studio Konishi Gaffney and a cross-laminated timber constructing in Vancouver by Motiv Architects.
The pictures is by Constructing Narratives.
Mission credit:
Architect: Bindloss Dawes
Design workforce: Oliver Bindloss, George Dawes
Structural engineer: Fixed Structural Design
Contractor: GDW Constructing & Renovations
