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Front entry pierces through the living room across the pool.

Modern Barns is a 4,300-square-foot dwelling consisting of a series of timber volumes with pitched roofs.

The ToDD Residence

Front facade with ipe wood slat siding, standing seam metal roofing and central "factory window"

Viewed from the swimming pool, the new scheme largely obscures the original house—appearing as a new-build, modern house of a composition reminiscent of the mid-twentieth-century Case Study Houses.

Sustainable strategies were reflected early in the planning stages of the residence. Instead of demolishing the original house, Malcolm Davis and the homeowners opted to carefully dismantle the home in order to salvage lumber and other materials, some of which were repurposed into the final home.

The island displays interlocking joints at the corners, highlighting the full dimension of the solid walnut wood wrap.