Macdonald Wright Architects has added a barn clad in black-stained boards to Caring Wood ? a Kent country villa that is vying to be named the UK's House of the Year.
Corvid Barn was erected close to Caring Wood house, which the London-based firm worked on with Niall Maxwell of Welsh studio Rural Office for Architecture.
Corvid Barn is located on the estate of Caring Wood, a Kent villa vying to be named UK House of the Year
The carbon-neutral house, which is one of seven shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year prize, comprises a cluster of volumes topped with angular tiled roofs that reference the area's traditional hop-drying oast towers.
The house was granted planning permission due to its ambitious design and a commitment by the owners to plant 25,000 native trees on its grounds.
The barn was built as a base for managing the estate's operations and contains storage, workshop and office spaces in two conjoined wings.
Responding to the reforestation project and the client's request for a highly sustainable building, timber was the obvious choice for the main material for construction and cladding.

"[The barn's] form and design were driven by functionality," said project architect Matteo Gallo, "[with] the need to provide practical storage and workshop space for a variety of activities, making the building key to the development of the estate in future years."

"In keeping with the philosophy of the practice, Corvid Barn manipulates the Englis...