Oliver’s award-winning home Le Mont Saint Farm appears as a case study in an article entitled ‘The Allure of the Unfinished: When Architecture Lays Itself Bare’, published this month by Italian online architecture and construction magazine Infobuild.it.

The article, by journalist Claudia Capperucci, explores the creative upgrading of historic structures. She is specifically interested in schemes that preserve and expose original features in juxtaposition with contemporary design elements.

The translated text reads as follows:

Le Mont Saint Farm is an award-winning renovation of a historic farmhouse (winner of the 2018 Guernsey Design Awards) that blends old and new.

In short, the history of the listed buildings is preserved and honestly told, while a new chapter unfolds in the Victorian barn at the rear, transformed into a spacious and bright space.

The StudiO designers behind the project reject the traditional barn conversion approach to embrace a new, modern, and multifaceted one, envisioning a structure with fun and vibrant 21st-century family spaces, while also highlighting historical elements and details from across the ages in a philosophically honest way.

◯ Check out the article here