November 17 2023

Loader Monteith Architects with Dan Pearson Studio landscape architect have filed plans for the perfect home for anyone wishing to get away from it all.

Emphasising the use of local materials and an embrace of the surrounding landscape the 'quiet structure' adopts a more serene approach to Highland domesticity than the more bombastic approach taken by a high-profile neighbour.

Sitting behind a rubble and timber wall under a green roof Roshven House doffs its hat to the beauty of the Lochailort landscape with a low-slung design that sits below natural rock features.

Accessible from an existing driveway off the A861 through Roshven the remote home will sit on 30 hectares of undeveloped hillside surrounded by open moors and pockets of native woodland.

Built atop a rock outcrop the scheme is accessible by a concrete staircase carved into the rockface from a low-level carport and a winding drive through a fern gully leading to a newly terraced courtyard where the modest two-bedroom home will sit. 

8 Comments

#1 Posted by Voice of Reason on 20 Nov 2023 at 08:37 AM

Very Creek Vean / Team 4 vibes. Lovely.

#2 Posted by TheFakeArchitect on 20 Nov 2023 at 09:47 AM

All very well designing a "modest two-bedroom home".. "for anyone wishing to get away from it all".. "Emphasising the use of local materials and an embrace of the surrounding landscape".. just make sure you include a three car carport and space for another couple on the driveway. Makes sense.

#3 Posted by MBRD on 20 Nov 2023 at 09:59 AM

@UrbanRealm casting shade there! Zing!

#4 Posted by M is for Mungo on 20 Nov 2023 at 13:24 PM

Haters gotta hate. :)

#5 Posted by Showbiz Sam on 20 Nov 2023 at 14:13 PM

A refreshing architectural approach compared to Stella's.

#6 Posted by Gay Gordon on 20 Nov 2023 at 15:11 PM

"Loader Monteith Architects with Dan Pearson Studio landscape architect have filed plans for the perfect home for anyone wishing to get away from it all".
...There's a couple of folk under the Heilanman's umbrella that would be interested in this!

#7 Posted by Nairn's Bairn on 20 Nov 2023 at 18:31 PM

Oh yes. Had a look at the Planning Application drawings, this looks like a very sensitive design. It will without doubt have wow factor while respecting the location. You won't know it's there, but I'm sure will make the most of the views. It's got a lovely feel. For some reason makes me think of Souto de Moura – modern, yet tactile and solid.

It will without doubt be an expensive house to build, but it is deferential to the landscape, and that is very classy. We’ve seen so many overly-dominant, “look at me” houses in the Highlands over recent years that this is a refreshing approach. Just goes to show you don't have to kick sand in the face of the locale to build a house of significance.

I like to think this will not need the intervention of a higher power to explain to the neighbourhood that they just don’t understand quality architecture.

#8 Posted by CRM on 21 Nov 2023 at 13:30 PM

Charlie here .... i like it !

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