Scottish practice Mary Arnold-Forster Architects has designed a cluster of small buildings around a wildflower garden in rural Scotland, that contain both an office for the studio and a home for its founder.
Located in the small hamlet of Fungarth, Dunkeld, the home and office sit alongside a former ploughman's cottage and steadings.
Fungarth Cottage is a home and office in rural Scotland that was designed by Mary Arnold-Forster Architects
Rather than filling the site with a single building, the development was split into several buildings that loosely enclose a courtyard. They have been gradually completed since 2017 and include a greenhouse and wooden kayak store as well as the home and office.
"The site of the former ploughman's cottage was bought with an existing planning application for a square house sat in the centre of the plot," explained Mary Arnold-Forster Architects. "The project was redesigned to create a south-facing 'walled garden', with the new larch house to the north, a corrugated office to the east, a lean-to greenhouse to the west and to the south a screen beyond which the steading can be seen."
The buildings were designed to look like existing barns
The two-storey home and single-storey office buildings were designed with barn-like forms that reference the area's traditional structures.
"The buildings sit in their context and are traditional in scale, siting and massing, but detailed in a contemporary way," said the studio...