Barn

Front facade facing West at dusk

The home was built in 1980, Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects renovated the project in 2013.

The Japanese "no-brand" masters of minimalism unveil the first single-story design in their line of prefab homes.

The five-stall horse barn has been recently updated.

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The 1,800-square-foot barn and workshop was designed by architect friend Yianni Doulis. The exterior employs untreated cedar in a reverse board-and-batten style.

A wood bridge leads to the second-floor entry of the converted barn, which now offers 4,500-square feet of clean, modern interior space. The cladding is local hemlock spruce, the same local wood that was originally used to build the barn.

The doorway on the left accesses an entry porch, which can be closed with the sliding door. The screened porch is the stepped-down volume on the right.

The architects used smaller bits of oak as wooden shingles for the roof.

Bark gives the exterior walls a textured appearance and allows them to blend into the forested surroundings.