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Case Studies
Tressour Wood

Tressour Wood Aberfeldy (1993) This was the first of Gaia's eco-houses in Scotland. It uses all timber construction and breathing walls.

Highland Eco-Centre

Highland Eco-Centre, Ullapool (1996) Gaia were approached by a private client wishing to develop an exemplar of autonomous technology and sustainable building as a demonstration of ecological best practice in the Highlands.

Kirk Park, Easter Dalguise, Perthshire
This affordable rural house was built for a local family with the assistance of a Rural Home Ownership Grant from Communities Scotland.
Balgowan House, Methven
This idiosyncratic design is a modern interpretation of the vernacular.
Culkein Drumbeg Sutherland

Ledliath Culkein Drumbeg Sutherland (1997) This 4-bedroom house was designed to have a minimum impact on the landscape. It is of timber frame construction with locally sourced Douglas fir cladding and harled masonry.

Ledliath Bunkhouse, Culkein Drumbeg, Sutherland (2003)
This completely timber, split-level building was built as an addition to the main house.

Plash Mill Cottage, The Lade Braes, St. Andrews
This listed building was converted from a derelict condition into a family house.

Littlecroft

Littlecroft, Scottish Borders (2002)
This small Study/Guest Annexe features light earth walls, made using a mix of blocks and monolithic (shuttered) clay and woodchip or straw within a timber frame.

Bridge of Lyon, Fortingall
An ecological extension to a former Chapel.

Nettleton House

Nettleton House, Killin (1995) Gaia designed this small budget holiday home on Loch Earn from Scottish sourced and untreated timber. 

Duireaskin Farmhouse, Aberfeldy
Gaia have been involved in various phases of work at Duireaskin over a period of years.  

Duireaskin Steading & Bothy, Aberfeldy (1997)
This conversion involved utilising the available space to make interesting living rooms with fine views to the north & west.  

Crossmount House, Kinloch Rannoch
Gaia has been involved with the systematic repair of the fabric of this imposing listed building to ensure that it is preserved for future generations.
 

Keeper's Cottage, Pitlochry
Gaia carried out extensions and alterations to this traditional estate cottage.

Donlellan, Strathtummel
This small house has recently been greatly improved by the construction of a porch that links the old cottage to a converted garage.
 

Glenview, Fowlis Wester
This cottage was renovated and the derelict stone barn restored and converted.
 

Loch Tummel, Strathtummel (2003)
This new 3-bedroom house with a double garage and workspace/loft was built on a south facing hillside site with magnificent panoramic views overlooking Loch Tummel.
 

General

The Tressour Wood House (UK House of the year 1993) is the best known of the Gaia eco-houses, and is still much visited. It is however, just one of a range of small eco-buildings.

Our Birnam office, previously Aberfeldy, specialises in domestic projects valued between £50,000 to £500,000. They offer a range of services for the domestic client from advice on feasibility, through Planning and Building Warrant applications, to a full architectural service with site supervision.

In each of these smaller projects we seek to extend our knowledge and understanding of natural materials through innovative development of details, procurement methods, treatments etc.

We also seek to do this in the context of a holistic design that is cyclic rather than linear.

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