Huon Barn House | Studio Ilk

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Huon Barn House | Studio Ilk

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  • Project Name: Huon Barn House
  • Practice: Studio Ilk
  • Completion year: 2018
  • Project Location: Tasmania
  • Country: Australia
  • Photo Credits: Thomas Ryan
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Excerpt: Huon Barn House is a residence designed by the architectural firm Studio Ilk. The brief for the house was to create a robust home for a growing family using simple forms and rustic materials. The simple detailing and forms expand upon the unpretentious farmhouse vernacular and adapt the arrangement to create a series of flexible spaces for living. The application of this uncomplicated construction typology was two-fold, driven initially to engage with the context in which it sits and facilitate a pragmatic, cost-effective solution with the client’s role in mind.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by Architect] Our brief was to create a robust home for a growing family using simple forms and rustic materials while allowing our client, a carpenter/joiner, to take ownership of much of the fabrication himself.

Huon Barn House | Studio Ilk
© Thomas Ryan

The simple detailing and forms expand upon the unpretentious farmhouse vernacular and adapt the arrangement to create a series of flexible spaces for living. The application of this uncomplicated construction typology was two-fold, driven initially to engage with the context in which it sits and facilitate a pragmatic, cost-effective solution with the client’s role in mind.

Huon Barn House | Studio Ilk
© Thomas Ryan

This low-cost, energy-efficient home is open, spacious, and lineally uncluttered. This low cost, energy-efficient home maximizes visual connection with the landscape yet provides ample protection from the elements.

Huon Barn House | Studio Ilk
© Thomas Ryan
Huon Barn House | Studio Ilk
© Thomas Ryan

The building runs east-west to maximize passive solar performance and combat the challenges surrounding a site where the predominant views are to the south.

Huon Barn House | Studio Ilk
© Thomas Ryan

As the surrounding landscaping, decks and planting progress over the coming years, the home will comfortably settle into its surroundings. 

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