Willoughby Design
Willoughby Design Barn
The Willoughby Design Barn started out as a small project. Ann Willoughby had in mind some kind of small building for storage and retreat, to complement her modest farmhouse in Weston, Missouri. After entertaining several ideas, Ann and Dan Maginn of el dorado architects visited a friend's farm for inspiration.
That's where she fell in love: with a real life, heavy-duty, partially dismantled barn frame, a century-old timber structure in the process of being dismantled to be sold to a builder on the East Coast. The barn frame went to Weston instead, and her project got to be not so small.
Together with el dorado, architects, Ann created the perfect sustainable solution for her barn. It respects the farm, the frame and the house. It is extremely flexible, as a good barn should be. Every year we use it for slightly different things, and every year the farm grows a little bit differently.
Willoughby Design Barn
The Willoughby Design Barn started out as a small project. Ann Willoughby had in mind some kind of small building for storage and retreat, to complement her modest farmhouse in Weston, Missouri. After entertaining several ideas, Ann and Dan Maginn of el dorado architects visited a friend's farm for inspiration.
That's where she fell in love: with a real life, heavy-duty, partially dismantled barn frame, a century-old timber structure in the process of being dismantled to be sold to a builder on the East Coast. The barn frame went to Weston instead, and her project got to be not so small.
Together with el dorado, architects, Ann created the perfect sustainable solution for her barn. It respects the farm, the frame and the house. It is extremely flexible, as a good barn should be. Every year we use it for slightly different things, and every year the farm grows a little bit differently.