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Earthship Scotland Tyrehouse

Scottish Earthship Design – Rural Eco Architecture, Sustainable East Lothian Workshop

post updated 18 August 2021

Tyrehouse Scotland

Scottish Sustainable Building

Location: undisclosed
Architect: undisclosed
All photos of this Scottish Earthship design © Adrian Welch, Architect

Workshop
Made from tyres filled with non-organic earth on three sides
Sustainable Architecture Scotland - Tyrehouse
This log roof is sourced from the surrounding wood

Scottish Earthship
Tyre structure about to be concealed by turf; boulders frame southern entry facade

Earthship Scotland
Water butt with bespoke channel from front facade gutter

Toilet
Timber building Scotland Tyre House Scotland
This features local logs and a turf roof

Stable
East Lothian Tyrehouse building

Sustainable Architecture

This is not the only UK earthship: at time of writing there are 16 Earthships being built in Brighton and there are some in Fife too.

Location: Blinkbonny Wood, foot of the Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian, south east Scotland

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Spyon Cop in the Cairngorms National Park
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Pennywell All Care Centre in Edinburgh
photo : Keith Hunter
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HALO Kilmarnock building model
image courtesy of architects
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