The rain-swept car park of Victoria Hospital at Kirkcaldy in Fife is a scene that could serve as a dictionary definition of the Scots word “dreich”. Certainly, one might question its adequacy as a setting for the long-awaited domestic debut of arguably the greatest British architect of the age. And yet here, beneath the trees that close the south end of this expanse of pot holed asphalt, lies a diminutive structure formed with all the calculated flamboyance of a piece of origami. Its authorship is immediately clear — this can only be a product of the luxuriant imagination of Zaha Hadid.