American studio Faulkner Architects has completed a holiday home in California's wine country with an asymmetrical roof and facades wrapped in weathering steel and salvaged wood.
Called the Big Barn house, the project is located in Glen Ellen, a town in Sonoma Valley that is named after a winery established there in the 1860s. Located about an hour's drive from San Francisco, the area has rolling hills dotted with oak trees and agricultural buildings.

The clients hired California's Faulkner Architects to design a family getaway that would enable them to unplug from their urban lifestyle. The goal was to create a weekend home that embraced the region's undulating terrain and vernacular architecture while making sure to avoid gimmicks and inauthenticity.
"The strong agricultural history has affected the built environment here, with many examples of barn-like houses that are confusingly morphed between the two vocabularies," the studio said.
Faulkner Architects has already completed one project on the client's property ? the conversion of a tack barn into a minimal bunkhouse, which the owner's stayed in while making plans for a larger abode. The simple building totals 389 square feet (78 square metres) and is clad in weathering steel and reclaimed wood.

The bunkhouse influenced the design for the main dwelling, whose exterior walls are wrapped in salvaged redwood and corrugated Corten steel. The two-storey home is rectangular in plan and measures 3,900 square fee...