Mavisbank House & Landscape
Mavisbank House, near Loanhead in Midlothian, is Scotland’s first Palladian villa, built between 1723 and 1727 by architect William Adam in collaboration with Sir John Clerk of Penicuik. Once hailed as one of Scotland’s most important country houses, it later fell into ruin after a fire in 1973, though recent funding aims to stabilise and conserve the remains.
We created an AU 3D Digital Model of the surviving buildings and landscape, and digitally reconstructed both the building and its designed landscape from information provided by a team of researchers.
Drawing on this research, we redecorated rooms virtually to reflect Clerk’s intended aesthetic. This reconstruction was not simply technical: it reframed Mavisbank as a site of possibility, demonstrating howdigital heritage can bridge past and future. The slides show results from the digital reconstruction.
