SQUAMISH BARN
YEAR 2020-2021
TYPOGOLOGY Agricultural
LOCATION Squamish, BC
TEAM Edward Ozimek
ROLE Lead Designer
TYPOGOLOGY Agricultural
LOCATION Squamish, BC
TEAM Edward Ozimek
ROLE Lead Designer
A series of agricultural buildings and a guest house on a remote farm in British Columbia. My first built project, I followed it all the way from inception to construction documentation.
Situated on in the upper Squamish valley, this project was commissioned by the farmer who owns and resides on the property, with the intention that he complete all the construction himself. All the timber used was harvested on site and processed at a local wood mill. In need of additional farm buildings as well as a smaller workers residence, the client was engaged with the design at multiple stages in the project. Collaborating with Edward Ozimek, I worked on this project from early massing studies, to schematic design of the three buildings, though to construction documentation. Given an unusual looking existing building on the site, a major challenge was finding forms and materials that could respond to this context without reproducing it. Our strategy was ultimately to produce a series of formally distinct buildings, allowing the whole to read as an eclectic set.
