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Fern Cottage

Nethy Bridge
Awards: 

Saltire Housing Design Awards 2018 – Shortlisted

Client: Private
Architect: WT Architecture
Contractor: Colin Lawson Builders Ltd.
Completed: 2017
Status: Complete
Photographer: dapplephotography

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Project overview

This project revitalised a neglected Victorian cottage in the Cairngorms.

An existing two-storey extension was demolished and replaced with a new extension containing living, kitchen and dining spaces. The origami-like zinc roof pitches and folds in multiple directions, rising and falling to mirror level changes and help differentiate internal spaces. The main engineering challenges were to support the complex folded roof and to cantilever the roof structure over the full-height glazed corner.

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Ben Adam

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Meet Ben Adam
Ben is Managing Director of Narro and a Chartered Structural Engineer.
BEng(Hons), CEng, FICE, FIStructE, Conservation Accredited Engineer, HonFRIAS
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