Art Barn by AA tutor Thomas Randall-Page has been reviewed for The Observer by architecture critic Rowan Moore. The project, designed for the architect’s father, sculptor Peter Randall-Page RA, encompasses the conversion of an agricultural barn into a series of studio, workshop and archive spaces, and is situated in the Teign Valley within Dartmoor National Park. Moore commended the project for its materiality and the sensitivity of its relation to the surrounding landscape, noting the effective tension between exposure and enclosure that is expressed throughout the structure.

‘You can see the work of the building – what is holding it up, what is keeping you dry, what actions built the wall and cut the wood. It is direct. What you see is what you get. But it is not just blunt function; there is rhyming of the parts with each other, and wit in the ways they go together.[…]The Art Barn is a singular and secluded project, a hut in the woods serving an exceptional purpose. It offers some freedoms from the usual constraints of building, which the younger Randall-Page has intelligently used. The result is architecture – the creative bringing together of materials, making, space, light, site and use.’

To read the article, originally published in The Observer, on The Guardian's website here. A short film of the Art Barn can be viewed here.

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