Melamar is an exemplary Certified Passivhaus family-orientated home near Stirling. Sitting above a small burn and fronting a local loop road which connects the building cluster to adjacent rural farmsteads, the design enhances not only the owners experience of the site, which is defined by long views over fields to the south and west, but has also transformed their quality of life.  

The concept is subtly articulated: the striated Scottish Caithness stone walling defines the more formal public realm by creating a robust and solid, yet highly textural mass. This is complemented by the softer, naturally weathered timber rainscreen cladding enveloping the remainder of the building, referencing the informality of the wider agricultural context and echoing qualities of the nearby rows of mature deciduous trees which define adjacent fields.