Tag: vernacular heritage

Discover four key traditional building skills at the Scottish Crannog Centre’s Iron Age Village

Monday 10 June 2024


Before the relaunch of the Scottish Crannog Centre's Iron Age Village, we visited Loch Tay to meet our work party of Craft Fellows, who used traditional building skills alongside the centre’s staff to create the village.

What can builders of the past teach us about sustainable building methods?

Monday 19 February 2024


At its core, vernacular building is about local knowledge and local materials. Our Vernacular Buildings Craft Fellow, Ross, shares his experience of working on vernacular buildings across Scotland and explains how they could help modern building practices become more sustainable.

Grassroots hutting: an architecture borrowed from the soil

Wednesday 24 January 2024


How can local materials and ancient skills help us with sustainable building practices for the modern age? That's a question we've explored on a recent project to construct a traditional turf hut near Comrie, Perthshire.

From Scotland to Slovakia: cave dwellings and community heritage

Wednesday 6 November 2019


The way people live and the buildings they live in has changed drastically over time. In the countryside, many rural homes from hundreds of years ago have disappeared back into the earth. But in both Slovakia and Scotland, their stories, and some of the structures themselves, still remain. Delve into cave dwelling history and community heritage.

4 great reasons to learn traditional building conservation skills

Thursday 16 May 2019


Whether you’re looking to kick-start a career in building conservation, or you’re a homeowner looking to care for your traditional home, here are 4 great reasons to learn about traditional building conservation.