Project
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57.27° N, 6.21° W
Barn of Lines
A timber-clad house on the footprint of a ruined barn, its larch boards left to silver in the Atlantic weather.
Location
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Year
2023
Typology
Residential
Area
260 m²
Status
Completed
Client
Private
Brief
A home and studio for a painter, built where an eighteenth-century barn once stood, using the barn’s stone footings as the new foundation.
Section
A single gabled volume holds one long room under the roof. The painting studio faces north; the kitchen catches the morning light from the sea.
Material
Untreated Scottish larch laid diagonally, sheep’s wool insulation and a slate floor from a quarry twelve miles away.
Credits
Architecture: Zuxen · Structure: Narro · Timber: Russwood · Photography: Studio archive
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