Jason A. Grout // Architectural Design
Five Bedroom Barn House Renovation
The Great Divide // 2016
A design and renovation project for a working barn in Burlington, Kentucky. This structure, with a 5,000 square foot footprint, was turned into a six bedroom, five and one-half bath home with a four car garage. The project revolved around a literal "slice" through the structure, called The Great Divide. Programming was removed from this space to create a thirty-foot high atrium and the resulting void was encased in glass. This new void became the circulatory space with glass walkways connecting the two "halves" of the barn from every floor. Other portions of the barn were also dissolved to mimic The Great Divide.
Third Floor Glass Walkway
This walkway, created out of polished stainless steel and glass, not only spans The Great Divide but also the communal area below. It stretches from the stairway on one "half" of the barn to the thrid floor office space on the opposite side of the other. This not only allows access to the office, but also adds new utility to the twenty-foot wall to its left. The wall can now be used as a double level gallery wall.