Virtually inexhaustible in this country, over the past few decades the vast patrimony of rural buildings has been steadily converted for use as modern country homes largely for periodic occupation, a by-product the gradual collapse of the traditional farming economy on the one hand, and a structural crisis in the cities on the other. The projects presented in this book, the second in the series, demonstrate how a sensitive rehabilitation of otherwise plain constructions is possible by intelligently working round the strict conservation parameters and devising new relationships between the fabric and the countryside.