SSA Design Awards 2012

Architeco won the ‘Best Use of Wood’ Award in this year’s Stirling Society of Architects Design Awards for our Low Impact Artist’s Studio.
The studio is built almost entirely from wood, from the railway sleeper foundations to the timber floor and frame, softwood rain-screen cladding, and cedar shingles on the roof.
Efficiency, affordability, sustainability and low-key design are emphasised, to suit the communally shared multi-use site within a patchwork of small back gardens. Timber was chosen for its practicality as a highly flexible, easy-to-work-with, economical and sustainable material; as well as for its aesthetic quality, which ties in well among the existing patterns of wooden fencing and sheds on the site.
The wood used was local, and much was reclaimed, including some sourced from the Glasgow Wood Recycling Scheme.