As the first project of their newly minted firm, Brent Linden and Chris Brown transformed a 90-year-old barn into a rich blend of winery and three-dimensional puzzle.
The clients, Sequitur Wines, had repurposed a 60-acre Douglas fir tree farm into a vineyard and winery six years before. Ready for a more public face, they imagined the barn’s becoming a centerpiece “fermentation hall.” Linden, Brown raised the entire structure 18 inches to put in concrete foundations. They intermingled a new post-and-beam structure with the historic heavy-timber frame, and replaced dry-rotted post bottoms with custom-fit wood grafts. Removing and cataloguing the original corrugated-metal roof sheets, they put them back on, but with a new skylight stretching the length of the roof ridge. An adjacent silo features a staircase that spirals around a lift for barrels, all skylit by an open wedge cut from the domed top. Five new buildings for the tasting room, offices, and production surround the barn, each wrapped and roofed in weathering corrugated steel. Old and new commingle like different vintage vines grown from the site’s iron-rich jory soil.
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