PENICUIK
Penicuik Estate is undertaking a strategic masterplan to diversify and enhance business, leisure and hospitality. Several projects are being undertaken including a new visitor centre and café.
The visitor centre incorporates a farm shop market hall, café, orientation for the parks and grounds and is sited near the Tympany entrance to the estate, connected to the footpath networks.
The building is a simple form in the landscape, and relates to the surrounding agricultural buildings, using the pitched form and metal cladding of a typical farm shed.
Large openings and a generous carved out entrance space give the internal spaces a strong visual connection to the woodland and Designed Landscape of the estate.
Farm Shop and Cafe
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PIERHOUSE
The new pontoon mooring offers the opportunity to create a marina, giving access by boat to the North of the island. A collection of accommodation positioned above the marina, taking in the expansive views across Glaceriska Bay towards Appin, creates a sense of place and provides some orientation for those arriving by boat.
The pavilion is arranged in a linear bar, angled to take in the views across the bay and to omit any overlooking, merging into the hillside towards the East. An expansive veranda provides a private external but sheltered terrace to each of the lodges evoking the architecture of pavilions which sits appropriately in the position overlooking the golf course and the marina.
Self contained accommodation is arranged along the building, which terrace up the sloping terrain. Thick stone gabion walls are used to root the building in the landscape with an open timber frame resting on top which allows the large window openings and carries the overhanging eaves of the roof structure.
HILLTOP RETREAT
Isolated refuge capitalising on the magnificent views to the Morven Hills in the West, Great Glen in the North and Glencoe to the East. Self contained accommodation for up to six people organised around a warming hearth surrounded by thick, stone walls under a floating timber canopy.
The retreats are designed to be hidden amongst the trees and scrubland on the ridge running North-South on the Eastern shore of the island ‘CeannGarbh’. Shielded from view they gain private vistas out from their perch, with a generous terrace sheltered by the overhanging roof canopy guests can enjoy the luxury of the hot tub in seclusion.
Designed to be stand-alone or banked to create small ‘colonies’, the retreats can be strategically placed around the ridge so that are glimpsed only distantly by anyone other than their guests. By using the thick stone walls and focussed aspect privacy is assured whether they are arranged adjacent to one another or are set individually in the landscape. The design can easily be scaled up or down to accommodate
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TREE HOUSE
An idyllic sanctuary placed among the trees in the denser wooded areas to the South of the island. Much like a tree in the forest the tree house is vertically stratified so that the views from each layer can take advantage of the surrounding woodland.
On the lowest level is the forest floor, dense in the spring and summer with flowering Blaeberry and Tresses with rich green Ferns with the dappled sunlight filtering through from above. In Autumn and winter the forest opens and the heathers and brackens vivid rusty reds and purples flourish.
The middle level rises though the tree trunks, with silver streaked birch trees rising from the undergrowth, with bright shoots of green emerging from early shoots. The straight, tall Scots pines, sometimes covered in yellow and blue lichen, are the playground of Pinemartin and Red Squirrels.
Rising up to the upper level is the tree canopy, this is the area of most diverse change through the seasons. From Spring buds to thick green Summer plumage into the burning ochre and red of Autumn and finally Winter, leaving just the sturdy evergreen pines so that through the canopy are glimpses of distant views.
Although formed within a single vertical building each of the three layers is approached and accessed separately through a winding path in the woodland, meaning the guests peel off to their own from door before catching their very own glimpse of the Tree House.
