A distillation of Scottish vernacular Baronial architecture with Japanese minimalism and European Arts and Craft leitmotifs
The world-renowned Hill House in Helensburgh is not only Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s domestic masterpiece, a rare living monument embodying the architect’s ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ approach where every element of the house from the building to the furniture and interiors was designed by Mackintosh .
‘The Hill House is built of soft red sandstone and a brick amalgam, buttered in this sand cement render,’ Groarke explains. ‘Mackintosh was looking to create the imagery of abstraction and cement render offered this potential. However, whereas local vernacular materials such as lime render breathe, cement doesn’t.’
Carmody Groarke’s winning design, the Hill House Box, is variously ‘a drying room’ and protective ‘field hospital with one patient, the Hill House inside,’ according to Groarke. ‘The project is also very much conceived as a visitor experience allowing the public to be up close and personal to Mackintosh.’
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