Off-grid National Park bothy accommodates rising tourism demand
April 3 2024
A cosy bothy has become the latest short-stay attraction to cater for burgeoning tourism demand across Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
Completed in the middle of last year by Line Architecture the off-grid rural retreat is surrounded by a wildflower meadow and includes new native tree planting to regenerate Coille na Sroine, an ancient semi-natural woodland.
The forest dwelling near Lochearnhead sits within a small clearing and incorporates a 7m wind turbine, wood store and roof-mounted solar panels.
The simple corrugated aluminium structure is raised up on stilts to prevent root damage and includes an elevated deck formed from black steel and houses a dedicated plant room in the roof void to power the home.
The bothy is a precursor to a similar structure on the Isle of Luing, also catering to the short stay and recreational market.
Development in the sensitive area required careful consideration of surrounding woodland
The self-sufficient bothy comes with its own log store
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7 Comments
-I'll take my chances. Life's too short as it is and processing my own wood gives me the exercise to stay alive.
Other than that a very modest proposal!
It take a takes a lot of money to achieve that mini youth hostel style aesthetic and really quite impressive that something can be made to look so un-cosy as this.
They actually really do need that wood burner for many reasons...
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Very wheelchair unfriendly -- does being a "bothy" preclude any form of level access?
Supposedly Eco friendly design but with a middle class cancer generator given pride of place in the living space.
Cancer generator -- log burning stove generating PM2.5's every time it is fired up.
Overall -- interesting but poor level of detailed design.
Might start a rush on bothy building -- not sure that is what national parks were set up for.