WT Architecture has built a linear house alongside Loch Tummel in the Scottish Highlands.
Partially buried in the landscape, the three-storey home emerges from a ruined walled garden to directly face the loch.
According to the architect it was designed to enhance the surrounding scenic landscape, rather than hide within it.
WT Architecture designed a house overlooking Loch Tummel. Photo is by Nathan Harrison
"Our overriding design focus was to create a home that emerges from its setting, as opposed to being an object placed in the landscape," said WT Architecture senior associate Thomas Fitzgerald.
"It is nevertheless a self-consciously picturesque house, not trying to be invisible but to have a sense of belonging in its context," he told Dezeen. The linear house was built into an 18th-century walled garden
Built to replace a white Victorian farmhouse, the house completes a walled garden that was reportedly abandoned incomplete as the builders left to fight in the Jacobite rising in 1745.
Designed as an "inhabited wall" the linear house incorporates stone from previous structures to integrate it into the historic site.
It has views of Loch Tummel
"The original whitewashed farmhouse was conspicuous from miles away, but we were keen for the natural materials used in the new house to tone with the exposed rocks, lichen-covered trees and diverse flora surrounding it," explained Fitzgerald.
"Older drystone walls merge with rebuilt...