Structure studio Brown & Brown and inside designer Sam Buckley have accomplished a home in southern Scotland, comprising stacked geometric volumes with gigantic openings that look out onto tidal flats.
Tidal Home belongs to a retired couple, who moved from Edinburgh to Dumfriesshire in pursuit of a extra peaceable life in nearer proximity to nature.
Buckley approached Brown & Brown founders Kate and Andrew Brown to develop the undertaking for his mother and father, with Buckley himself overseeing the interiors.
The positioning on the Solway Coast was beforehand occupied by a uncared for home that was demolished to make means for a constructing designed to mix in harmoniously with its pure environment.
The home’s setting on the outskirts of a village knowledgeable a spatial plan that seeks to stability the requirement for privateness with a need to optimise publicity to pure airy and the panorama.
“Our design centered on the concept of a home with a closed facet that kinds a barrier to the neighbours on the rear and opens up as you progress via to disclose views of the tidal flats,” Andrew Brown advised Dezeen.
The constructing’s materials palette responds to its context by utilising pure finishes to provide the parts components a definite character. The strong north-facing volumes are clad in a smoked clay brick, whereas the lighter south facet shows wooden that may climate over time.
“We weren’t attempting to create one thing that hides away however on the similar time the constructing sits comfortably on the shoreline,” Brown added. “The clay brick has a riven floor and the timber cladding has a softness and lack of uniformity that does not jar with the environment.”
The development technique and materiality additionally contribute to the constructing’s thermal consolation, with the broad masonry partitions serving to to retain and dissipate warmth all through the day.
The south-facing glazing additionally permits daylight to heated the inside, whereas overhangs protect the areas in the course of the hotter months and pure cross-ventilation helps to keep up a snug inside local weather.
The home is organized round a three-sided courtyard that separates the primary residing areas from an artist’s studio. A full-height opening reverse the doorway frames a view via the courtyard with its single Acer tree and in the direction of the water past.
The studio house is essentially closed off from the remainder of the home to create a way of privateness. A glazed nook ensures this room feels dazzling and related with the panorama.
“We needed to tug a number of the capabilities aside and create axes that organise the home into totally different zones,” Brown defined. “The doorway axis separates the studio from the opposite rooms and attracts you in the direction of the view.”
The doorway foyer leads via to an open-plan kitchen, eating and residing space that appears onto the courtyard and an adjoining patio via its full-height glazed partitions. A suspended fire offers a focus in a single nook of the lounge.
A hall oriented at proper angles to the doorway axis offers entry to utility areas on one facet and two visitor bedrooms on the far finish.
The purchasers’ non-public quarters are accommodated above the residing areas on the primary flooring. These comprise a bed room, en suite rest room and a miniature lounge with a glazed nook that makes probably the most of its elevated vantage level.
All through the house, a mixture of tiles and wooden flooring helps to zone the areas whereas making a heated and impartial backdrop that focuses consideration on the views.
Buckley’s inside design introduces colors that add character to the areas, whereas furnishings together with items made by his father deliver a deeper stage of private connection.
Brown & Brown relies in Aboyne within the Scottish Highlands. It really works throughout the UK and past, creating contextually pushed tasks which might be usually located in delicate places.
The studio’s earlier work consists of a black timber-clad house on a hillside within the Cairngorms Nationwide Park and a home within the metropolis of Aberdeen that mixes timber cladding with salvaged stone.
