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Farm House & Luthier Studio
Farm House & Luthier Studio
Northfield, MN, United States
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Farm House & Luthier Studio
Northfield, MN, United States
Our clients, both of whom grew up in farming communities, were interested in rural forms, such as the classic farmhouse-and-barn ensemble, for their new house. One building houses a luthier studio; the other, the living spaces and a music room for a pianist.
Construction united a diverse group of collaborators under Locus’ umbrella. We organized our clients, a MnDOT road-crew worker (siding), a couple of high school seniors (stone work), a retiree teacher (cabinets), a luthier apprentice (roofer), and a free-lance color consultant to incorporate 2,500 board feet of salvaged Douglas fir, 30 abandoned windows, 800 square feet of pine sheathing, 1,500 square feet of hem fir flooring rescued from a nearby farmhouse being demolished, and 1,000 board feet of mill-second pine siding. The project embodied a rural vernacular vocabulary, as well as the tradition and spirit of a barn raising.
Working with diverse talents and incorporating salvaged materials as they became available took flexibility and juggling, but the open nature of design and construction was critical to the project’s success as it unfolded. In fact, the house’s tall signature dormer directly resulted from the serendipitous nature of the process. While getting up after lunch during construction of the third floor deck, we noticed a distant hillock visible over the trees, only evident from one spot on the floor. Bringing the owner out that day, we all decided that we should capture the view, and sketched the new dormer on the floor deck, where it remains under the flooring to this day
It was featured in Midwest Home and Garden in 2001
Locus received an AIA Minneapolis Merit Award in 2003 for this residence
It was featured as the Star Tribune Home of the Month in 2004
Construction united a diverse group of collaborators under Locus’ umbrella. We organized our clients, a MnDOT road-crew worker (siding), a couple of high school seniors (stone work), a retiree teacher (cabinets), a luthier apprentice (roofer), and a free-lance color consultant to incorporate 2,500 board feet of salvaged Douglas fir, 30 abandoned windows, 800 square feet of pine sheathing, 1,500 square feet of hem fir flooring rescued from a nearby farmhouse being demolished, and 1,000 board feet of mill-second pine siding. The project embodied a rural vernacular vocabulary, as well as the tradition and spirit of a barn raising.
Working with diverse talents and incorporating salvaged materials as they became available took flexibility and juggling, but the open nature of design and construction was critical to the project’s success as it unfolded. In fact, the house’s tall signature dormer directly resulted from the serendipitous nature of the process. While getting up after lunch during construction of the third floor deck, we noticed a distant hillock visible over the trees, only evident from one spot on the floor. Bringing the owner out that day, we all decided that we should capture the view, and sketched the new dormer on the floor deck, where it remains under the flooring to this day
It was featured in Midwest Home and Garden in 2001
Locus received an AIA Minneapolis Merit Award in 2003 for this residence
It was featured as the Star Tribune Home of the Month in 2004
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