CNN Business Features LAMAS’ Townships Farmhouse in “Rustic Yet Modern Converted Barns”
LAMAS’ Townships Farmhouse in North Hatley, Quebec, was featured in CNN Business in the article “Rustic Yet Modern Converted Barns Feature,” published on March 29, 2019. The piece highlights the project as part of a broader exploration of contemporary barn conversions and barn-inspired living in North America.
The CNN Business feature situates the project within a growing interest in adapted agricultural structures as domestic environments, focusing on how existing barn typologies are reinterpreted for contemporary living. The article notes the project’s approach to reworking vernacular barn forms—using a clustered arrangement of buildings organized around a courtyard, with materials and proportions drawn from regional agricultural architecture in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
The Townships Farmhouse is described as a response to the landscape and working farm context, where the arrangement of volumes reflects the logic of agricultural outbuildings rather than a singular house form. The project explores how domestic space can be structured through site-driven relationships between buildings, landscape, and views, drawing on the spatial logic of barns as a generative framework.