Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Imagine a journey in the depths of winter from London to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. EasyJet to Glasgow, Loganair to Stornoway, then an hour and half\u2019s drive across a landscape of peat bogs and glassy lochans, as if the island cannot decide which dimension it belongs to: sea or rock? Past the ferry port at Tarbert, the darkness thick as treacle, the road narrows to a single track. Finally we arrive at a house named Caochan na Creige. The Gaelic phrase means \u201clittle quiet one by the rock\u201d.Building the \u201clittle quiet one\u201d in surroundings that share a latitude with Alaska requires determination one might describe as Hebridean, particularly as this is a place where access to building supplies is dependent upon ferry times and the weather, and where the Sabbath is still quietly observed. \u201cWithin a few weeks of us starting on site, there were nine named storms, gusting 120 miles per hour,\u201d says Caochan na Creige\u2019s Scottish architect Eilidh Izat, 35. \u201cWe were renting a stone cottage and the walls were shaking. It was a humbling experience.\u201d\u00a0Izat\u2019s husband and business partner Jack Arundell, along with her brother Alasdair Izat, oversaw the day-to-day construction alongside stonemason Dan Macaulay. The result is a modest, single-storey, contemporary house of glass and stone that blends into the hills above a\u00a0stretch of the Atlantic. The walls are built from Harris\u2019s native gneiss rock \u2013 one of the densest types of natural materials \u2013 each stone hand-selected from a nearby quarry. What did the islanders, wary of incomers and a proliferation of holiday homes left in their wake, make of\u00a0their endeavours? \u201cBuilding the house ourselves, for ourselves, people saw we had good intentions,\u201d says Arundell. Inside, local materials and suppliers were used: the terrazzo floors are by Skye Stone Studio, while a Scots cedar-panelled ceiling creates cosiness. It is a porous house, in which sea and sky colour the rooms. The couple can watch the aurora borealis from their bed. \u201cMany people think contemporary homes are sleek and cold, but this is the opposite,\u201d Izat says. She was awarded young architect of the year at the 2024 Scottish Design Awards.\u00a0The house signals a fresh spirit in Hebridean architecture and design, in which virtue is made of the limitations imposed by remote coordinates, harsh winters and tricky logistics. Buildings share a serene, Nordic aesthetic that feels authentically Hebridean \u2013 these islands were once Viking colonies. Humility is a watchword to describe ethos as much as scale. \u201cThey\u2019re quieter buildings with breathing walls constructed using local craftsmanship and materials,\u201d says architect Mary Arnold-Forster. Respect is paid to the particularities of Hebridean life, with its emphasis on community, hard work and the church. Scottish photographer and designer Alexander Baxter, whose work spotlights the best of Hebridean design, puts it this way: \u201cPeople live in islands, not on them.\u201d\u00a0Rodel House, located on the southern tip of Harris, is a fitting example of new intention. Built for Captain Alexander MacLeod in 1781 when Rodel was an important harbour, the Georgian building functioned as a hotel until it was offered, after years of disuse, to Anderson Bakewell. Bakewell, who has been coming to the island since 1968, is the founder of the Isle of Harris Distillery, a \u201csocial distillery\u201d of whisky and gin that has boosted local employment and the island\u2019s international reputation.At Rodel House, which is available to rent, \u201cthere was no experience of place through the building\u201d, says Bakewell. So Lachie Stewart of Anta Architecture began a process of\u00a0sensitive restoration, prying off later extensions and additions, while Maria Speake of Retrouvius designed its pared-back interiors. Earthy and oceanic tones wash elegant rooms, with walls upholstered in Harris wool, and corduroy-covered fireside chairs. It\u2019s a wonderful spot. \u201cTwo joiners on the island made everything by hand,\u201d says Bakewell. \u201cNow when you\u2019re in the house, you\u2019re in Harris.\u201d\u00a0On the Isle of Mull, Croft 3, a restaurant and working croft, received RIBA\u2019s Reinvention Award award last year\u00a0for an inventive take on a traditional building. Its\u00a0owner Jeanette Cutlack approached architect Edward Farleigh-Dastmalchi of the studio Fardaa to design the venue in what was a ruined barn.\u201cWe wanted to retain the intimate character of Jeanette\u2019s former restaurant, while adapting to the scale of the barn and the landscape beyond,\u201d says Farleigh-Dastmalchi. Working with the existing stone structure, large windows frame views to Ben More and the isle of Ulva, while a new extension peeks out from behind the old croft. \u201cTraditional homesteads here are grouped closely, providing a sense of protection. The overlapping form of the barn and extension offers a similar sense of shelter.\u201d Such is its modish look that Cutlack was happily surprised by the arrival last summer of \u201chipster couples drinking Negronis at the bar\u201d.\u00a0Nearby, Glasgow architects Harford-Cross have performed similar magic on Dun Guaidhre (Guthrie\u2019s fort), a traditional, one-room cottage, \u201cwithout losing the essence of its simplicity\u201d, says Peter Harford-Cross. The result is a rustic but refined interior, with plywood panelling concealing a kitchen and bathroom. \u201cYou\u2019re working with the skills of the tradespeople who live here, using vernacular techniques. It\u2019s island-led design,\u201d says\u00a0his wife and fellow architect Rachel Harford-Cross, who co-designed the project.\u00a0Dun Guaidhre appears in Banjo Beale and Alexander Baxter\u2019s book A Place in Scotland. Beale, an Australian who lives on Mull with his husband Ro, is the unofficial face of design in these parts, having presented two series of the BBC\u2019s interiors makeover show Designing the Hebrides. \u201cThere\u2019s so much potential here, so many bothies and ruined shells just waiting to be reanimated,\u201d he says. \u201cBut it\u2019s about making meaningful interventions.\u201d He\u2019s about to embark upon a project of his own. \u201cRo and I\u00a0are moving to Ulva to a house that, coincidentally, was where an early governor-general of Australia grew up. Ulva is community-owned. It then had a population of 600. Now there\u2019s just 16 people. I don\u2019t want to come in and change something for my vision. It\u2019s important to see how the islanders want things done.\u201dThere is an obvious romance to the Hebrides. Rimowa shot its latest luggage advertisement on the CalMac ferry, while Dior used Harris tweed in a\u00a0recent Scotland-inspired collection. But the beauty of these islands belies the challenges of living there. Depopulation is a critical issue, with a\u00a0lack of affordable housing a contributing factor. Hugo Macdonald, who, with husband James Stevens, runs Bard, an Edinburgh emporium of Scottish craft, grew up on Skye. \u201cYou have strong ties to indoor life, how you live at home and the things you choose to live with,\u201d he says. \u201cMaking things and celebrating local materials is born of necessity. It\u2019s linked to poverty. Life is tough. You have to look after\u00a0yourself and each other.\u201d Hence the importance of community. \u201cThe fantasy of buying a second home is an attractive prospect,\u201d he continues. \u201cBut it\u2019s about being mindful and respectful of the existing culture.\u201dSocially responsible architecture is a guiding principle\u00a0at Dualchas Architects \u2013 one of its team is a mountain-rescue volunteer. Based on Skye, the firm is a\u00a0vanguard of contemporary design in the Hebrides, its work recently celebrated at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Dualchas is developing a range of\u00a0affordable kit homes in response to rising building costs. \u201cIt\u2019s important for young people to live in their own\u00a0communities,\u201d says co-founder Neil Stephen. He and identical twin Alasdair set up their practice in 1996, \u201cto prove the point that there\u00a0was something worthwhile in the architecture of the Highlands\u201d. They took the ideas conveyed in the traditional Hebridean architecture of practical necessity, particularly the long and black houses that were \u201conce disparaged as the architecture of poverty\u201d, and turned them into contemporary expressions of a specific culture. This is exemplified by Achnacloich, Neil\u2019s own home on Skye \u2013 a calm, open-plan longhouse, clad in larch, with clay-block walls and a terrazzo floor. \u201cIt\u2019s about simple things done right, to make lovely spaces that future generations want to look after because they see it as belonging to a particular place,\u201d he explains.This sense of mission is shared by Arnold-Forster, who launched Alder, a magazine that documents and defines Scotland\u2019s modern architectural language. Arnold-Forster has built \u201clight-touch, highly tuned, simple buildings with\u00a0a fundamental sense of place\u201d all over the Hebrides. She would like Scotland\u2019s materials and workshops to be\u00a0as celebrated as tartan and whisky. \u201cThere\u2019s a real skills shortage here, but the craftsmanship is spectacular\u201d \u2013 as evidenced in a house she created off the island of Scalpay, in which four linked birch cabins are cantilevered over a remote\u00a0lagoon. \u201cSomeone will call and ask, \u2018Would you like to do a project on Jura? There\u2019s no access, no electricity. You\u2019ll need to come by water taxi.\u2019 To\u00a0me, that\u2019s the best kind of phone call.\u201d\u00a0visitscotland.com; loganair.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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