A barn is the most iconic element of the New England landscape. While houses come in many forms, the barn remains unchanged over time. For this project, we envisioned a barn breaking free of its house, garage, and even conventional domesticity to become a home and creative space for a family of makers. The first floor holds a wood shop and weaving studio, the second floor the living spaces and views over the rolling land. Self-sufficient and compact, the Roaming Barn centers manual creativity as the foundation from which life grows. Taking inspiration from traditional saltbox barns of Maine, it is clad in weathered cedar boards with crisply outlined white windows. It is formally compact and efficient but opens unexpectedly to the landscape around it.