Private Homes \ House at Strathaven Airfield
Strathaven Airfield is the oldest continually used airstrip in Scotland. It is now a busy and active centre for micro-lighting and the owner has commissioned the practice to design a house for himself and his partner to be situated parallel to the runway. To allow for maximum supervision and minimum invasion of privacy, the main rooms of the house are on the first floor with only a garage and extra bedrooms on the ground floor. The structure is a simple cantilevered steel frame and the proposed roof and wall cladding is mill-finished corrugated aluminium, a material which resonates with local farm cladding and indeed the cladding of the adjacent hangars.
The house also featured on the the television show Grand Designs S13E05 The Metal Sculpture Home.
Architects | Richard Murphy, Peter Hunt |
Engineers | Create Engineering |
Quantity Surveyor | McLeod & Atken |
Construction Cost | £400,000 |
Client | Colin Mackinnon and Marta Briongos |
Awards
2019 | RIAS Award |
2019 | RIBA Award |
Press
21 September 2023 | The Iconic British House: Modern Architectural Masterworks Since 1900 | Thames & Hudson |
1 October 2022 | 21st Century Houses - RIBA Award-Winning Homes | RIBA Publishing |
July/Aug 2021 | Up, Up and Away | selfbuilder + homemaker |
20/06/2021 | Blue Sky Thinking Gives Flight | The Daily Record |
29 September 2019 | House at Strathaven airfield review – a runway success | The Guardian |
30 May 2019 | Briongos MacKinnon House, Strathaven | The RIBA Journal |
JULY/AUGUST 2019 | Flight of Fancy | Homes & Interiors Scotland |