This was a personal entry into a small competition put together by a potential client and a few employees of PCA. The client owned a working educational farm in up-state New York which he used as a teaching venue where children could learn about the process of modern farming as well as how food gets from the farm to their plates at home. The competition called for entries for a newly constructed visitors center for Discovery Farm that was to house restrooms, a picnic area, lockers, a souvenir shop, and room for a future ice cream shop. Cost was a major component to this project and is why I chose to use common and inexpensive materials to create a structure that had a modern twist on the classic farm vernacular. Attempting to sensitively incorporate a new an more contemporary structure into the array of older existing utilitarian farm buildings my entry took on the feel of a deconstructed chicken coop. I kept the picnic area covered yet open and airy with the use of timber framing and corrugated aluminum, while enclosed the souvenir shop and restroom.
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