Monday 4th December, 2017
New house designs that work in harmony with their local environment
Professor Deveci from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen described modern homes built in locations such as the Isle of Skye and Shetland as a “nightmare on the landscape” and was concerned that they could damage tourism. He also criticised planned housing developments on the Aberdeenshire coast for not respecting the local built environment, calling them “boxes that belong to nowhere.” When you work with a practice like CAD Architects, you will often hear the term “contextual housing design”. This is what it means to us…