Balancing Barn, Thorington, England, United Kingdom
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| Balancing Barn | |
| Designer | MVRDV, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Architect of Record | Mole Architects |
| Location | Thorington, England, United Kingdom |
| Date | to 2010 |
| Building Type | Small House |
| Climate | Mild Temperate |
| Context | Rural |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Builder | O'Seaman and Sons |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | RIBA Award winner 2011 |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | Living Architecture |
| Area | 210 square meters (2,260 square feet) |
| Length | 37 meters |
| Awards | |
"The house was designed as one of Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture projects as a holiday home for people who come to have a dialogue with landscape. The building has a voyeuristic character whereby visitors gaze out on, their surroundings. The consistent use of ash over walls, floors and ceilings gives a carved quality to the interior that is cleverly at odds with the slight defections that remind visitors that they are suspended in mid-air. Creating buildings that can evoke such powerful feelings of obscure but pleasurable unease is very rare and the balancing barn hits the mark in a very unusual way." -- RIBA
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- Landscape Architect: The Landscape Partnership
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- Balancing Barn - Completed Building
- Balancing Barn at MVRDV Architects site
- Balancing Barn at Mole Architects site
- Balancing Barn at RIBA Awards site
