The mountains of Scotland's Cairngorms National Park offer a dramatic backdrop for this modernist-inspired hut by firm Moxon Architects.
Culardoch Shieling, which takes its name from the Scottish Gaelic word for "hut", is located in the grounds of the client's highland estate. It provides a space for entertaining guests that takes full advantage of its scenic surrounds.

"We were asked to create a building with the highest regard for the very special landscape it is located in" explained Ben Addy, who founded Moxon in 2004, and now has offices in both London and Aberdeenshire.

The design was heavily influenced by modernist works of the 20th century.
The most obvious are the rectangular glass windows interspersed along the walls of the 47-metre-square hut, which echo those of Le Corbusier's Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, the iconic cathedral built at Ronchamp in 1954.
Moxon also took visual references from humble structures located near to Culardoch Shieling. The hut's exterior, which is crafted from unprocessed larch wood, was directly informed by the simplistic aesthetic of livestock holdings and Scottish farming crofts.
"In pure terms of construction technology there is nothing much to say that this building could not have been built at any point in the last 300 years or so," said Addy.

The client specified that the building must have minimal impact on the terrain.
"We took this to mean visual and environmental sensitivity ...