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Earthship Scotland Tyrehouse

Scottish Earthship Design – Rural Eco Architecture, Sustainable East Lothian Workshop

post updated 15 July 2025

Scottish Sustainable Building

Location: undisclosed
Architect: undisclosed
All photos of this Scottish Earthship design © Adrian Welch, Architect

Workshop
Made from tyres filled with non-organic earth on three sides
Sustainable Architecture Scotland - Tyrehouse
This log roof is sourced from the surrounding wood

Tyrehouse Scotland

Scottish Earthship
Tyre structure about to be concealed by turf; boulders frame southern entry facade

Earthship Scotland
Water butt with bespoke channel from front facade gutter

Toilet
Timber building Scotland Tyre House Scotland
This features local logs and a turf roof

Stable
East Lothian Tyrehouse building

Sustainable Architecture

This is not the only UK earthship: at time of writing there are 16 Earthships being built in Brighton and there are some in Fife too.

Location: Blinkbonny Wood, foot of the Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian, south east Scotland

Architecture in Scotland

Contemporary Architecture in Scotland – architectural selection below:

Scottish Architecture Designs – chronological list

Scottish Building News

Architecture and Design Scotland

Scottish Architecture – Selection

Contemporary Property in Cairngorms National Park
Architects: Brown + Brown
Spyon Cop in the Cairngorms National Park
image : Touch 3D

Charnock Bradley Building Roslin
Innovation Centre and Campus Hub at Edinburgh University
image Courtesy architecture office

Pennywell All Care Centre Building
HolmesMiller Architects

Ettrick Valley House

Scottish Architect

Sustainable Buildings

Sustainable timber building

Gifford Buildings

Ssustainable Architecture News Scotland

Comments / photos for the Scottish Tyrehouse design: sustainable building Scotland page welcome.