Introduction

The substantial country house, standing in grounds is an important stitch in the tapestry of the Scottish countryside. These buildings are also a significant part of our architectural and landscape heritage.

The number of recent examples appears to be limited. The aim of this competition is to help redress this by issuing a brief for a new house and associated grounds as an ideas competition and as a contribution from the Landscape Institute Scotland to The Festival of Architecture 2016.

The aim is to celebrate the balance between architecture and landscape, expressed as new building mass and associated grounds, designed to be seen, and sympathetic to the countryside.

Entrants will be a team of two disciplines, architect and landscape architect, working together to find a harmonious solution.

This is a ‘Design Ideas Competition’ and is purely hypothetical without prospect of realisation or implementation.

There will be public exhibition, possible publicity through the Festival of Architecture and prize money in both professional and student categories. It is the intention to exhibit all entries on the LIS website and at the exhibition venue depending on space.

Concept

The project is for a house and grounds for an art collector with focus concentrated on internal and external ‘gallery’ spaces and their overall integration with the house, grounds and the surrounding landscape. However, although this is the heart of the concept, the building should also function as a family house.

Although the collection is at the heart of the concept, internally the gallery should not necessarily be seen as a separate “room”, but can be integrated into the layout, flowing into the entrance, circulation and dining areas at the same or variable levels.

Similarly, internal and external areas and the surrounding landscape should also flow into one another.

Competition Timetable

Competition details available: Tuesday, 31st May 2016
Competition period: Wednesday, 1st June to Friday 23rd September 2016
Questions submitted by: Monday, 27th June 2016
Answers date: Friday, 1st July 2016

Closing date for expressions of interest and registration and payment of applicable fee: 31st July 2016. (If there are insufficient entries by 1st August 2016, the LIS reserves the right to cancel the competition and fees will be refunded).

Hand in date:* Friday, 23rd September 2016 at 10.00am – 4.00pm
Judging: Wednesday, 28th September 2016
Public Exhibition: Thursday, 29th and Friday, 30th September 2016
Pick - up of work: Friday, 30th September 2016 at 4.00pm – 6.00pm

*Hand in of work at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow

Exhibitions

An exhibition of all entries will be held at:

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow
232-242 St Vincent Street
Glasgow
G2 5RG
on Thursday, 29th and Friday, 30th September 2016

and an exhibition of the prize winning entries will be held at:

The Dundas Street Gallery
Dundas Street
Edinburgh EH3 6HZ
on Monday, 5th – Friday, 9th December 2016.

The full brief and schdeule, prize list and other information can be downloaded from the LIS website here

A list of FAQ can be found here