Oak-frame architect profile Robin Baker Architects Ltd

Robin Baker Architects is an award-winning practice based in Perthshire, whose principal has 25 years’ experience of designing site-specific eco-friendly houses and unusual timber structures.

Oak-framed home created by Robin Baker

Robin Baker Architects designs oak-frame houses and innovative timber structures, using traditional framing or discreetly engineered frames, combining sustainably sourced timber and eco-friendly finishes to create healthy homes.

This practice works closely with a team of skilled craftsmen and other professionals to create unique solutions to suit each client’s requirements within the agreed budget and enhance the genius loci of the particular site.

They also design to agreed energy performance standards ranging from current good practice and low carbon design up to passive house standard.

In the 1980’s Robin Baker was inspired by using structural carpentry repairs on the roof trusses of Square Chapel in Halifax, which spanned 60 feet, possibly the longest spanning roof trusses in Britain when constructed in 1773.

Robin Baker now has over 25 years’ experience of designing bespoke site-specific houses, restoring historic buildings, converting underused buildings, altering houses and often adding garden rooms to improve the connection of the house to the landscape.

Examples of oak and timber frame houses include:

• The Treehouse, Argyll
• The Bunkhouse, Drumbeg
• Aultbeag, Perthshire

Examples of the practice’s innovative timber structures include:

• David Douglas Pavilion, Scottish Plant Hunters Garden, Pitlochry
• Pinecone Viewpoint, Forestry Commission Scotland, Dunkeld
• Flanders Moss Viewing Tower, Scottish Natural Heritage

contact information

Robin Baker Architects Ltd

Tower Buildings
Station Road
Birnam
Dunkeld
Perthshire
PH8 0DS

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More information

• Projects designed by
  Robin Baker
  • Oak-frame homes
  • Oak-frame extensions
  • Other timber-frame buildings
• Member of
  • Architects Registration Board (ARB)
  • The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
  • Scottish Ecological Design Association
  • The Sustainable Building Association (AECB)
• Awards
  • The Wood Awards 2004 - The David Douglas Pavilion in the Explorers Garden, Pitlochry Theatre, was the only Scottish project shortlisted for the Wood Awards in 2004
  • Dundee Institute of Architects Design Awards 2004 - The David Douglas Pavilion received a Commendation
  • Dynamic Places Awards 2001 - The refurbishment of the Locus Centre, in the Square, Aberfeldy, was Highly Commended in the Making Connections category. The Locus Centre is housed in the former Congregational Church and accommodates the Tourist Information Centre, a sixty-seat auditorium, three IT suites and two office spaces with galleries formed in the roof
  • Perth Civic Trust Award 1997 - 18 low energy flats at Leslie Court for the Fairfield Housing Co-operative, Perth, received a Commendation for Gaia Architects. Robin Baker was the project architect