Burnieshed residences, Scotland

A hamlet of small timber residences for visting artists located on the beautiful Bamff Estate, a rewilding project in Perthshire, Scotland.

The buildings sit within and around some historic stone ruins in woodland, next to a small river that's home to an established beaver colony. To minimise noise and disturbance to the beavers, the four structures were designed to be fabricated in panels, some distance away from the site, and then walked into position and assembled relatively quickly and quietly. 

Whilst each of the structures is different, we adopted a Walter Segal ‘self build’ style approach, developing a standard kit of details, material types, sizes and grades. These were used for all the buildings, and readily available from local timber yards, or quarries in the case of the stone pedestal foundations.

Architect - Maich Swift