{"id":943,"date":"2025-07-29T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=943"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:09:26","slug":"loader-monteith-renovates-18th-century-scottish-cottage-to-be-a-safe-haven-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/loader-monteith-renovates-18th-century-scottish-cottage-to-be-a-safe-haven-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Loader Monteith renovates 18th-century Scottish cottage to be a “safe haven”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hameart<\/div>\n

Architecture studio Loader Monteith<\/a> has renovated and extended an 18th-century cottage<\/a> in Scotland<\/a>, creating a series of open and accessible spaces for a resident living with Alzheimer’s disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

Glasgow-based Loader Monteith<\/a> renovated and extended the stone<\/a> cottage in Perthshire, which was originally built in 1789, but had suffered years of neglect after being reconfigured into a dental surgery.<\/p>\n

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Loader Monteith has renovated and extended an 18th-century cottage in Scotland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alongside the renovation of its structure, the cottage’s new owners tasked the studio with creating a “safe haven” for a member of the household with dementia.<\/p>\n

This gave the project its name of Hameart \u2013 a Scots Gaelic word for homely.<\/p>\n

“Hameart is very much about home and family, and how architecture can help support and celebrate these familial connections,” Loader Monteith director Matt Loader told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“It was incredibly important to both clients and us that the house was comfortable, with a warmth in the materials selected throughout.”<\/p>\n

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Hameart was designed to be a “safe haven” for a resident with dementia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The compartmentalised layout of the existing cottage has been opened up by relocating its staircase from the front to the rear of the home and replacing a poor-quality extension with a two-storey volume housing an additional bedroom.<\/p>\n

This reconfiguration created a clear axis through the centre of the home that connects three distinct areas \u2013 the original cottage facing the street, a kitchen and patio at the centre and a living and dining area overlooking the garden and River Earn beyond.<\/p>\n

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Its interior was opened up to be more dementia-friendly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The original plan was very long and thin; we wanted to break the house into three separate ‘areas’ to ensure that there was no sensation of being in a corridor at any point,” said Loader.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to connect inside to outside in the back two-thirds of the house, with the original cottage, with its low ceilings and smaller window openings, respected and celebrated.”<\/p>\n