David Kohn Architects celebrates "marks of former life" in cowshed conversion

London studio David Kohn Architects has converted an agricultural building on a former dairy farm in Newton Abbot, UK, to create a house and studio named Cowshed.
Cowshed is the last building to be completed in a 15-year-long transformation of Middle Rocombe Farm, which has been owned and inhabited by artist Suzanne Blank Redstone and her husband Peter Redstone since the early 1970s.
The couple has transformed the site into a housing community to achieve their goal of working "in an isolated rur