Ann Willoughby desired a structure to complement her existing 1880s farmhouse on her working farm outside of Kansas City, Missouri. She utilizes the structure as an event space in connection with Willoughby Design Group, her identity design firm. Aside from the industrial and agricultural functions that comprise the entire lower level of the barn, the program includes an open event space, an insulated and climate controlled utility / toilet room area, and a sleeping loft. The barn frame, purchased by the client in the spring of 1998, was originally located in Highland, Kansas. Carefully sited in its new home, it is sheathed in corrugated copper and fiberglass panels.
Weston, Missouri | 2750 sf
International House Atlas by Casey C.M. Matthewson, Feierabend Publishers, 2007
American Institute of Architects, Central States Region, Merit Award 2004
American Institute of Architects, Kansas City Chapter, Honor Award 2002
American Institute of Architects, YAF Monsters of Design, Merit Award 2000
New Wood Architecture by Ruth Slavid, Yale University Press
The Farmhouse by Jean Rehkamp Larson, Taunton Press
Kansas City Star Magazine, September 5, 2004
Iowa Architect, Issue No. 05:251, 2004
Naujas Namas (Lithuania) June 2004
Architectural Record, October 2003