the barn at the ranch - part 3

 

These photos are from July of 2020 when I started out to plan for "the barn" utilizing the open piece of land South of the house and other buildings. I wanted to maximize the square footage given the constraints. Still that cannot be accomplished because of the underground buried 7.5kV electrical power feed to the property cutting diagonally across the site.

I wanted to keep the location of the barn out of the wooded forest part of the property and near the existing main structures

the aerial view is quite date as it does not reflect the young trees that had been planted and grown

the very preliminary site plan

this is a panoramic view of the building site

after a lot of deliberation of the constraints I decided the maximum square footage would be 4,000 square feet to also have good access for the Burnnhelde with the race car trailer in tow, as well as a generous poured concrete surface in front of the garage doors

I drove a lot of these stakes to check the locations of the building as well as other external features like the aprons, patio, and most important driveway access

the site has many small pine trees which are infeasible to save

conducting the real life in-situ test of the driveway access to the planned garage doors of the building as well as the siting location

this is the tightest turn and I want to preserve the tree there

I wanted to be able to drive Brunnhilde into any of the three garage doors and pull out with the most flexibility; I was able to figure out a loop to and out of "the barn"