Tennis Barn and Guest House

Corning, NY
Approx., 10,000SF, up-cycled prefabricated steel

This project produced a compound that connected with existing main house with a new guest lodging (a block), a garage (a box), a work/storage building (a tower), and the tennis court (a barn). Each building in this ensemble is, essentially, a prefabricated barn, sharing basic structural and cladding characteristics with various barn typologies found in the area. Yet each building also became a testing ground in how these characteristics can be varied to accommodate particular programs or uses. Each structure in this barn family is clearly related to each other, yet they are different in their individual expression. Like a good old barn that can be recycled to create a new one, pre-fabricated steel yielded 3 separate structures. The environmental sustainability of the tennis court is also inherent in its barn roots – the earth sheltered, naturally ventilated, green-roofed, heavily insulated and day-lit structure is kept warm in the winter with minimal hydronic floor heating and cooled in the summer by natural cross-ventilation and thermal mass of its concrete walls and floor.