Tinhouse by Rural Design, is located on the northwestern tip of the Isle of Skye, on a steeply sloping site overlooking The Minch, the body of water separating the Inner and Outer Hebrides. 

© David Barbour

Architects: Rural Design

Location: Skye, United Kingdom

Design And Construction Team: Alan Dickson, Gill Smith

Cost: £110,000

Area: 70.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: David Barbour

© David Barbour

Tinhouse by Rural Design, is located on the northwestern tip of the Isle of Skye, on a steeply sloping site overlooking The Minch, the body of water separating the Inner and Outer Hebrides. 
© David Barbour

Tinhouse is an essay in landscape, economy, construction and imagination which shares the same design ethic as its neighbouring sister the Wooden House. Where, however, the Wooden House celebrates timber detailing the Tinhouse celebrates corrugated metal sheeting, commonly used on the agricultural buildings of the rural landscape. It does so in a thoroughly contemporary way by using mill nished corrugated aluminium as the external cladding for both roof and walls. Internally its timber boarding, concrete oor and plywood cabinetry add to the handmade palette giving the house a character that is simultaneously modern and rustic. 

Plan

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