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What A contemporary two-bedroom eco house
Where Aberdeenshire
Architect Brown & Brown
It was a feat of inspired architectural improvisation that gave the Arbor House – a finalist in this year's Scottish Design Awards – its defining feature: a covered outdoor walkway, supported on one side by the former west wall of a crumbling old cottage that once stood on the site, and on the other by a concrete colonnade.
The walkway screens the calmly contemporary eco home and its leafy surrounds from the busy road that runs past it, while at the same time acting as a “mental airlock”, as architect Andrew Brown characterises it, where a process of psychological decompression can begin on approach to the front door. “That thing of ‘mentally
