August 29 2014

Newly relaunched Taylor Architecture Practice (T-A-P) has completed the conversion of a historic corn mill in Barrowford, Lancashire, to serve as the headquarters for Ai Process Systems. 

Located on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales the mill was originally built as a church and boasts a fine neoclassical façade fronting a newly stripped back interior.

This marries a full height atrium facing an internal timber clad façade with a facetted screen demarking open plan office areas.
A board room on the uppermost level is enclosed by a glass wall behind existing timber roof trusses, thus maintaining internal visual connections whilst opening up views to the surrounding landscape.

In their design statement T-A-P said: “It was determined that to maximise the usable floor area an existing mezzanine should be removed and two new upper level floors installed, to provide a series of open plan, cellular and meeting spaces, linked by new stairs and a lift located on the street frontage. The existing door openings at both the street and lower ground floor had been crudely widened at some point in the past. These were to be given new surrounds, clad in local sandstone, with simple detailing.”

Photography by David Barbour

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