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| Audubon's Snowy Egret by Laura Hartman |
The UCR Barn Expansion Project construction began in late 2018 and has rapidly progressed. See the below photos for an update on the construction process. Photo credits to Doug Brown from SVA.
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| View from the future courtyard, looking towards what is the beginning of the Faculty / Staff building's stage |
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| Opening for large sliding doors at the Barn Theater building |
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| New work on the Barn Dining building. You can see the interior trusses kept from the original building. |
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| The rain screen currently gives the walls a blue color and is the final layer in the waterproofing of the envelope. |
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| The black stained cedar siding is beginning to envelop the guest house. |
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| The formal appendages of the house are treated with a contrasting siding. |
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| Along the kitchen side, battens are beginning to march; they have been treated with a slightly darker stain than the boards. |
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| More finished elements have been installed, such as the guard rails. Also, in this image, we get a glimpse of our contractors on-site potato patch. He kindly gifted us a bucket. |
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| The "Toothpick." Richard in the back for scale. |
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| Future placement of the "Toothpick." |
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| Closeup of the glued laminated timber layers |
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| Steel columns supporting the roof at the Guest House. The sloped column is a reoccurring element throughout the project. |
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A collage of the various stain colors for the house's exterior.
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| Our contractor mocked up a few color variations of the board and batten siding. |
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| On one of the auxiliary structures, we experimented with randomly applied boards and battens that vary in width. This structure was also an initial opportunity to test stain application. |
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| A closeup of the auxiliary structure's siding profile |
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| Photo Credit: Steve Kurtz |
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| Photo credit: Richard Barnes. Project: Cohousing project in Philo California |
We are so excited to share that Laura Hartman has been elevated to The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects. We are incredibly proud of her. Congratulations, Laura! 
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| Barn Dining building, a 1916 horse stable which was subsequently turned into a dining hall with a performance stage in the 1950’s. Historical photo above, rendering below. |
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| Ticketing tower that defines the east site entrance |
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| Perspective from the stage, looking towards the rebuilt Barn Theater |
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| Faculty/Staff Dining building, from perimeter of the site |
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| Northwest site entry, looking towards Barn Dining, with Barn Theater at left and Faculty Staff Dining at right |
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| Photo credit: Richard Barnes |
Please join us for a special evening presentation on November 8th by Richard Fernau at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Richard will be speaking about F+H’s rehabilitation / reinvention of the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn in the context of his recently published book “Improvisations on Land: the Houses of Fernau+Hartman."
The renovation of the Hay Barn has received multiple architectural awards: a 2017 California Preservation Design Award in Rehabilitation; a 2017 Excellence in Architecture for Building Additions for Adaptive Reuse from the Society for College and University Planning; a 2017 U.S. WoodWorks Regional Excellence Award, and a 2016 Excellence in Design Honor Award from American Institute of Architects Montana. The AIA Montana award noted the "exhaustive documentation, piece-by-piece deconstruction, painstaking reassembly of the historic structure by weaving together new and old elements, and the incorporation of the contemporary program. As home to one of the university's most progressive programs, the Hay Barn is both an emblem of the campus' origins and a reassertion of its commitment to innovation."
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