SORISDAL HOUSE

Dry-stone house on the Isle of Coll

This new house replaces an original 1970's kit house at the head of the beautiful Sorisdal Bay at the north end of Coll. The building interprets the form and arrangement of the surrounding ruined croft houses in the ancient settlement of Sorisdal, making a building which feels like it has always been part of its spectacular surroundings. The house has two simple, vernacular proportioned sections and a lower link section with a heavy dry stone skin hunkering the building down into the landscape. The seaward walls in the living spaces open up for views over the bay and beyond to Ardnamurchan.