Alibi Studio has revitalised a dilapidated barn in rural Michigan and sliced an opening through its volume to create a passageway from which visitors can admire the sky.
The Secret Sky installation brought life back to the traditional, gambrel-roofed barn that was previously used to house livestock and farm machinery, located amid crop fields in Port Austin village.
Alibi Studio cut out a triangular section of a barn in Michigan
In addition to a basic renovation, Alibi Studio introduced an angular cut-out into a corner of the barn ? creating the effect of taking a slice from the structure.
Removing a segment of the building added a new space, which forms an open-top passageway that visitors can enter to appreciate views of the sky.
The cut-out section forms an open-top passageway "The void created by the passageway leads to a sharp point at the front of the barn (the east facade), right under some of the structural members for the gambrel roof, and then extrudes in a northwest direction, seemingly cutting through the barn and out on the northern face," the studio explained.
"Formally they are created as if a very tall and slender triangle was extruded as a void through the barn, cutting the faces and the roof."
Alibi Studio renovated the old barn while creating the installation
The studio tried to retain as much of the original barn as possible, stabilising the foundational walls and repairing damaged structural elements that had rotted away or been eat...