12.13.2019 | DIGS.NET 99
"The Hill House is supremely important to Scotland
and around the world as an example of Mackintosh's
domestic architecture."
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Now with the Box, its design finalized by
London-based architecture firm Carmody
Groarke, the house has a revolutionary defender.
"is project is genuinely a world first," Inglis says.
"ere have been approaches to encase buildings
for a temporary period whilst various works take
place, but the idea of surrounding a domestic
scale property with a transparent, wind permeable
but semi-permanent covering is—as far as we
know—unique." Principally, the Box minimizes
its environmental risks and, at the same time, also
provides unprecedented public access to e Hill
House with walkways at various external levels,
including right over the roof. Not welded together,
the Box can be entirely unbolted and removed at
any time then theoretically reassembled. "Normally,
shrouding a building for conservation purposes
involve erecting encapsulated scaffolding, but this
approach limits visibility, is usually aesthetically
displeasing and often impinges on visitor access to
the property or spaces," Inglis says. "is solution
neatly removes all of these challenges."
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