Sitting up on the rocks next to the sea, Taigh Na Traigh is the last house in the settlement of Mannal, on Tiree. It inhabits the remains of a byre, one of a cluster of agricultural ruins on the site.
Denizen Works は、亜鉛や板張りの針葉樹材を主要素材とすることから離れ、コンテクストを的確に読み解くことで、私たちのデザインの方向性に歓迎すべき修正をもたらしています。
Gordon Murray, Architects’ Journal
Mannal House sits at the end of a small settlement, barely a hamlet, of similarly robust structures. Often these become half-buried in the machair. Denizen Works’ quasi-archaeological dig on House No.7 is a fine example of how weather-protected external spaces can be created while stimulating interesting spatial interchanges internally. Mannal House achieves something similar within the existing rubble walls of an old byre, which root the building to an otherwise fragile edge just above the shoreline, in some weather conditions even holding back the surf.
[A] consequence of living at this high latitude is the low angle of sunlight, even in midsummer. Bouncing off the surface of the sea, it creates a wonderful horizontal illuminance, in which gables are sometimes bathed in a distant sunlight while the remainder of the building is under a grey sky.
Denizen Works are gaining a strong credibility with their unique interpretation of climate and history, the drivers between the physics of topography and the metaphysics of place — the ley lines which define the underlying context of the settlement.
Gordon Murray, Architects’ Journal
