Scottish architecture studio Rural Design has completed a shed-like holiday home on Scotland's Isle of Skye, featuring corrugated aluminium walls that reference local agricultural buildings (+ slideshow).

Rural Design founders Gill Smith and Alan Dickson designed and built The Tinhouse as a year-round rental home. The husband-and-wife team let it the property while also operating their architecture practice in the town of Portree.

The house is situated on a steep hillside site on the northwestern tip of the island, with views towards the Outer Hebridean islands.
Its design is intended to embody the studio's simple and economical approach to its projects, which also include a small wooden house with a fully glazed facade framing views of its surroundings.
The building was designed to evoke the form of the farmers' sheds dotted across the local landscape. Its aluminium cladding also references the robust, low-cost construction of these utilitarian structures.

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"The Tinhouse celebrates corrugated metal sheeting, commonly used on the agricultural buildings of the rural landscape," explained the architects.
"It does so in a thoroughly contemporary way by using mill-finished corrugated aluminium as the external cladding for both roof and walls."

The aluminium surfaces help to protect the building from the fierce storms that regularly batter the is...