This is a text block, text-xl. Made for multigenerational holidays on the beautiful Hebridean island of Tiree, House No 7 is a cluster of familiar forms that aren’t really architecture at all, an agricultural family grown from the machair.
The three parts — a traditional wide-walled cottage for sleeping, a corrugated steel-clad barn for living and a functional utility shed containing much-needed welly storage — group around a sheltered central hall, their strong exteriors facing the wind to protect a softer inside.
There are other, quite specific elements that make Tiree special. Machair, the rare habitat local to the Hebrides, is one and its almost luminescent yellow, white and purple flowers are pretty in the extreme. Machair is a type of coastal dune pasture with a high shell content that provides a fertile agricultural base. And it’s everywhere you look.
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From the outside, the building resembles a mash-up of all the kinds of crofts described in the Pevsner guide. If you think that there is something awkward about how the masses cohere, from the outside, you would be right. It is like that in the flesh too. It is not a drawback, mainly because this is a building that really works as a kind of private townscape, Each distinct element of it overlooks, or looks up to, another part, an approach that perhaps stems from Kerr’s time at BDP where the former chairman, Tony McGuirk, specialised in this kind of ‘atomised cluster that is really one building’ approach.
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The three parts — a traditional wide-walled cottage for sleeping, a corrugated steel-clad barn for living and a functional utility shed containing much-needed welly storage — group around a sheltered central hall, their strong exteriors facing the wind to protect a softer inside.
This is a press quote. Text 4xl. A cluster of stubby, functional-looking blobs huddled together on the tiny island’s southern coast.
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Materials inside are simple. The barrel vault is lined with skirting boards, set in bays.
2/3 image. The elements give the feel of having been accrued over time, with changes of level, light openings and interlocking spaces.
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This is a text block, text-xl. Made for multigenerational holidays on the beautiful Hebridean island of Tiree, House No 7 is a cluster of familiar forms that aren’t really architecture at all, an agricultural family grown from the machair.
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This is a text block, text-xl. Made for multigenerational holidays on the beautiful Hebridean island of Tiree, House No 7 is a cluster of familiar forms that aren’t really architecture at all, an agricultural family grown from the machair.
