Architecture firm Loader Monteith has designed the Cairnconon Byre house which replaced what was once a farm building. Located in Angus, Scotland, the home is defined by its stone finishing with a black-painted pine. It is topped off with a red corrugated-metal roof. The clients were looking for a space that honors the rural Scottish architecture.

The project architect Jamie Mack explains to Dezeen, “A byre is an ancillary farm building often used to stable animals over the winter. In this area of Angus, byres are typically unrendered stone buildings with pitched roofs. Across rural Scotland, failed thatched roofs are often replaced with metal, which subsequently rust down to red. These were the forms and materiality that inspired Cairnconon Byre.

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