Plywood cabinets lined with ceramics sit beneath outdated oak trusses by Underwing Workshop, a ceramics studio that British studio Ashton Porter Architects created in an English barn.
Positioned within the village of Framfield, East Sussex, the studio occupies a dilapidated cupboard space hooked up to the Grade II listed hay barn, which dates again to the 15th century.
Ashton Porter Architects' foremost intervention was the elimination of the construction's infill partitions, added within the 19th century to remodel it from an open animal shelter to an enclosed cupboard space.
The studio changed these partitions with massive stretches of glass whereas leveling its sunken flooring, reworking the tiled construction into the Underwing Workshop – a ceramics studio overlooking the encircling gardens.
“The unique 15th-century oak roof and wall construction of the present hay barn had been considerably dilapidated and there was a mix of 19th-century and 20th-century infill,” the studio advised Dezeen.
“Its most up-to-date historical past as cupboard space meant there was a scarcity of growth and components corresponding to an unmanufactured floor flooring wanted to be addressed.”
Ashton Porter Architects created the Underwing Workshop as a part of a wider overhaul of the farm, which started with an earlier extension and renovation of its foremost home.
Based on the studio, the principle problem was figuring out how a lot of the construction of the outdated warehouse wanted to be preserved as a result of heritage itemizing, and that this course of required working with an professional in tree ring courting.
“To determine which components had been of historic relevance, both from the unique barn or recycled from different native oak constructions of an identical age, and to find out which must be retained, an professional evaluation of dendrochronology was important to assist this work,” defined the studio.
Retained oak beams at the moment are a centerpiece within the Underwing Workshop, including texture to a sleeker modern materials palette.
To take away the 19th-century infill partitions and permit area for a glazed nook, the outdated construction was strengthened by a metal “discreet console” hidden within the ceiling.
“This [steel] the construction varieties a supportive 'cradle' for the present roof to permit each the elimination of the 19th century glass infill partitions and to create a clear nook to connect with the landscaped gardens within the quick neighborhood,” he defined the studio.
The mixture of the hidden metal body and the silicone-framed glass creates the phantasm that the outdated roof is floating above the pottery workshop.
Inside, the Underwing Workshop takes the type of an open and diminished room, framed by cabinets and workbenches.
Based on Ashton Porter Architects, the inside design was pushed to make sure “a powerful connection to the backyard and an eroded nook to permit for this transparency”.
Its flooring is sunk under the outside floor degree, aligning workbenches with out of doors planting and immersing the house owners in greenery.
To enhance and have a good time the present construction, a minimalist palette of “unfinished and uncooked supplies” was chosen for the inside design, together with plywood, unpainted plaster, uncooked concrete and white glazed bricks.
The centerpiece of the Underwing Workshop is the birch plywood joinery that was used to create lattice shelving items that match across the unique oak trusses.
“The dilapidated construction is supported by a discreet cantilevered metal body and the present oak roof construction is rigorously retained to juxtapose with the straightforward modern materials palette,” stated Ashton Porter Architects.
“The present oak roof construction is rigorously preserved to juxtapose with the straightforward palette of latest supplies.”
Different ceramics studios featured on Dezeen embody a slate-clad construction that Bruno Stevens added to a home in Belgium, and a trendy shed within the yard of a Los Angeles dwelling by Mark Watanabe and Raina Lee.
Photograph courtesy of Ashton Porter Architects.