Photography by Mike Sinclair courtesy of Hufft.
At first glance, we thought that this meticulously detailed and carefully crafted building standing alone on a hill in the landscape might be a bijoux guesthouse or even a small chapel.
With a passion for quality craftsmanship, Kansas City-based design/build firm Hufft Projects conceived The Shed to store maintenance equipment for the property of clients for whom Hufft had previously designed a house.
The Shed sits on a repurposed cul-de-sac sited to the west of the house on a winding entry drive in Springfield, MO.
The Shed is composed of a system of modular frames, wall panels, and roof trusses.
In the front, large operable doors with a built-in steel mechanism span the whole width of the structure allowing room for large scale machinery.
Hufft Projects also designed and built a custom workbench for the Shed.
Linear tubes of fluorescent lighting are seamlessly integrated into the structure.
The view isn’t half bad either.
“With natural materials and simple construction methods, The Shed doesn’t draw attention to itself but appears to be almost a sculptural element in the landscape,” the architects say.
At night, the strong rhythm of the structure is visible through the frosted polycarbonate sheets.
On the exterior, the white oak for the rain-screen was taken from trees on the property.
The galvanized steel elements were delivered to the site pre-welded.
The pre-welded galvanized steel elements were bolted on site.