• The scheme is presentation of materiality which respects its context and the original structure. The victorian brick neighbourhood informed the use of the red buff brick. The ruled ashlar stucco of the existing house informed the boardmarked in-situ concrete beams of the new extension. These beams form a structural cornice to the extension and their linear appearance is consistent with the ruled ashlar stucco of the original period structure.

    The overlay of an irish oak 'woven square' reciprocating roof structure and a 'cairn' enclosure of snecked limestone rubble creates a place to gather and remember. Internal and external peristyle space, as approach, and address to the existing memorial, cemetery and proposed landscape of 'wakening trees', thereby lending aperspective experience of space, extended promenade for procession with alternative spaces to meet and greet. The worked stone lined ceremonial space , aligned to the cardinal points and the emancipator's tower, places a limestone retractable catafalque.

    Internal and external peristyle space, as approach, and address to the existing memorial, cemetery and proposed landscape of 'wakening trees', thereby lending aperspective experience of space, extended promenade for procession with alternative spaces to meet and greet.

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  • Private
  • Rathmines, Dublin 6
  • 50 sqm