Auchoish Steadings, Argyll Property, Scottish Residential Building, Home Design Photos
Auchoish Steadings, Argyll House
Residential Development in Scotland: Scottish House design by Studio KAP Architects
19 Jan 2010
Auchoish Steadings
Location: Argyll
Date built: 2008
Design: Studio KAP, Architects
New House in Auchoish
Auchoish is a remotely situated farm steading surrounded by rough pasture just below the tree-line to the north-east of Lochgilphead. Traditional stone outbuildings, broadly C-shaped in plan, required refurbishment and conversion as further living accommodation.
The project was distinguished by three particular factors: very limited budget, very difficult site access and a very small contractor. All had a pervasive influence on the way we designed and built, from the nature of the spaces created through to environmental strategy, materiality and the nature of information exchange on site. Accepted positively we found these constraints on materials, energy and manpower lead to a particularly responsive, and effectively more vernacular, approach to the building – working and thinking closely with the contractor to carefully direct limited local resources.
The plan is manipulated to create sequences of rooms and spaces – cellular and open, self-contained and en filade – that offer varied relationships to natural light, courtyard and open fields, exposure and protection.
Hot water and space heating are provided by a geothermal heat pump (supplemented by woodburning stove). Electrical power is generated on site by a wind turbine with bi-directional link to the national grid.
GIA Residential Award 2009
Auchoish Steadings information from Studio KAP Architects
Auchoish Steadings photos from Keith Hunter, based in Paisley, south west of Glasgow.
Location: Auchoish, Scotland
Architecture in Scotland
Scottish Architecture Designs – chronological list
Another Argyll house design by Studio KAP on e-architect:
Tigh na Dobhran, Arduaine
Argyll House : RIAS Best Building in Scotland Award Finalist 2008
New Properties in Scotland
Contemporary Architecture in Scotland – residential architectural selection below:
Upper Parkbrae House, Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Northeast Scotland
Design: Brown & Brown Architects
photograph © Nigel Rigden
Upper Parkbrae House, Aberdeenshire
This contemporary Scottish property design is comprised of a timber and glass box, which is cantilevered above the landscape, and sited on a stone wall which runs both inside and outside of the building.
Loch Tay Boat House, northwest of Perth, central Scotland
Architect: McKenzie Strickland Associates
photograph : Keith Hunter
Loch Tay Boat House
A cave created beneath the Boathouse allows a speedboat to be driven in and tethered to the ceiling before an electric winch hoists it into mooring position. The living space above includes a kitchenette, shower room and a fold-away bed.
Skye House, Isle of Skye
Camustianavaig House
Fiscavaig House, Isle of Skye
Fiscavaig House
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