Homebuilding & Renovating

Greener by design

LOCATION Fife

SIZE 156m2

CONSTRUCTION Masonry (lower ground floor) and timber frame (upper ground floor)

BUILD COST £400,000

VALUE Unknown

WORDS Amy Reeves

PHOTOGRAPHY Paul Zanre

When approached by a client for an efficient new home on an awkward plot in Fife, David Jamieson of Zone Architects designed an understated, elegant building, with the goal that it would require

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