16 CAPEL STREET. Highly Commended 2008 RIAI Awards

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1 The scheme involved the refurbishment and extension of the upper floors of a building on Capel Street to provide seven one and two-bedroom apartments over a newly extended retail unit. The scheme was eligible for the Living Over The Shop (LOTS) tax incentive scheme and was the fourth of five such schemes undertaken by the office. The original building covered had 100% site coverage and a plot ratio of 4. It comprised a typical eighteenth century terraced house to the front, five floors over basement, and a four storey early twentieth century framed workshop structure to the rear. The principal architectural move was to cut a courtyard The apartments are planned to allow maximum spatial flow though the depth of the apartments, in the street apartments from front to rear, and in the rear apartments from side to side. The same floor plans are employed over the different floors, resulting in bright upper floor apartments with 2.5m ceiling heights and lower floor apartments with less light compensated by 3.6m ceiling heights. Communal facilities comprise the roof garden, the laundry and bike store at ground level and generous basement storage in individual cages. Access and circulation on each floor is by means of a long skewer corridor connecting by a spiralling steel framed stairs with timber treads. Floor finishes throughout are of rubber sheeting on a resilient underlay. All kitchens are bespoke birch ply doors and carcasses. The project was highly commended in the Irish Architecture Awards 2008, and has been published in Architecture Ireland, Architecture & Detail, the Sunday Business Post, and the Dept of Arts, Culutre and the Gaeltacht Guidelines on Urban Renewal Shaping the Future Area:: Status: Consultants: Highly Commended 2008 RIAI Awards 1000m2 Complete Declan Collier & Assoc Structural Engineers Andrew Nugent & Associates Quantity Surveyors Dominic Fay & Associates Services Engineers 16 CAPEL STREET DUBLIN 1

2 Site Plan The site is located on the Northern edge of Birr, 800m from the town centre and adjacent to schools, shops and other services. The land slopes gently down to the north to a stream that runs along the wooded border, parallel to the proposed relief road which will divert traffic from the town centre. The site, situated between the Banagher and Tullamore roads, is bordered to the south,east and west by a variety of established private and public housing. The scheme seeks to establish a clear, coherent and varied sequence of public spaces that links naturally into the various vehicular and pedestrian access points to the site. The formality of the larger square and the height of the surrounding houses reflects the georgian history of Birr, and is of a similar scale as Emmet Square in the town centre. Likewise the design of the individual houses and apartments seks to relate to the local georgian tradition of plain rendered facades, large vertical windows and steeply pitched roofs. The dwelling mix ranges from a small number of one bedroom apartments through to and three bedroom dwellings in a wide variety of formats to 4 bedroom houses. The design of all the dwellings follows DoELG recommendations for significantly increased storage space, and the construction of the dwellings proposed to be in super-insulated timber frame construction. No. Dwellings: 225 Site Area: 18 acres Status: Planning Granted 2008 Design Team: Malone O Regan, Structural Engineers Mullin Design Associates, Landscape Architects RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AT CAPPANEALE, BIRR

3 Covered Terrace Living Room View South Facing Patio Living Room THE house is situated on sloping ground overlooking Helvick Harbour and Dungarvan Bay beyond. The clients are a Dublin-based family, originally from Dungarvan, and the house will accommodate vacations for both the clients and their extended family who work abroad. The height of the building was determined by the need to preserve a sight line, established by a previous permission on the site, from the properties behind. The house is built off a number of terraces cut into the hillside. The lowest Terrace accommodates the open plan.living and dining areas while the upper terraces accommodate the kitchen/ utility and the bedrooms and bathrooms. The only enclosed areas in the plan are the bedroom and bathrooms, as the nature of holiday houses is such as allow a more relaxed organisation, with less demands for privacy and acoustic isolation than would be required in a permanent home. View to North The roofs of the building are flat and step with the floors below. A long rooflight over the bedroom gallery admits midday sunlight into the centre of the plan. The living room external Axonometric View from Road wall is fully glazed to take advantage of the view across the bay, and is sheltered from the elements by an overhanging canopy, which also protects the entrance deck and terrace. The kitchen opens on to a more sheltered south facing patio to the rear, which in turn opens to an orchard cut into the hillside. The construction is a mixture of conventional cavity wall construction and a structural steel grid at 3m centres to achieve the clear span over the living room. Floor area:: Status: Design Team: 150 m2 Complete Zubi Associates Engineers Bernard Seymour Landscape Architect HELVICK HOUSE

4 From apartments to houses Terraced houses The Cromlech Close development comprises a block of 7 apartments and a terrace of 9 houses, disposed on a corner site already occupied by 4 local authority houses from the 1960 s. Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Architects Department designed the scheme to Part 8 stage and then appointed OBB to bring the project through to completion. On taking over a project from another architect our first task is to audit the design at it s current stage of development vis-à-vis compliance with Parts B, L & M of the Building Regulations, and then to review the appropriateness and efficiency of different construction methods. Corner apartments & public space Plan view In this particular project the principal challenge was to develop the house and apartment design to meet the elevated sustainability standards of the Council s own Development Plan. Having reviewed a number of construction methods it was decided that the use of brick facing in the Part 8 application, together with the durability standards required by the Housing Department and the current competitive level of tendering, suggested that conventional cavity construction with full fill CavityTherm insulation was the most appropriate method of external wall construction to satisfy Part L Additional insulation to both roof and slab, combined with close attention to air sealing in the detailing have resulted in the majority of the dwellings receiving a BER assessment of A3 or higher. Solar panels will be provide water heating in all dwellings, and internally space heating is by a high performance gas boiler supplemented by solid fuel stoves. Particular attention has been paid to the external landscaping of the scheme, both hard and soft, to create a layering of private zones around the dwellings and a public realm that is attractive while durable and requiring limited maintenance. The landscape design drew on strategies successfully developed in the Patrician Villas project which has matured well since completion. Floor area:: Status: Client: Design Team: Site Sections 1300 m2 On Site Feb 2015 Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council O Reilly Hyland Tierney Quantity Surveyors IN2 Services Engineers SCS Structural Engineers 16 DWELLINGS CROMLECH CLOSE, KILTERNAN, CO. DUBLIN

5 THE site was a secluded garden, previously occupied by a large detached house, and accessed by a long narrow driveway. It was situated in the centre of a suburban block and is surrounded by the back gardens of other houses. The proposal sought to maximize the residential density achievable on the site while avoiding overlooking of neighbouring properties. To this end almost all the existing planting was retained to provide both residential amenity and screening to neighbouring properties. The houses themselves are of straightforward design with a kitchen and breakfast room to the front and living room to the rear of ground floor, and a large bedroom front and rear at first floor level. Six of the houses have an attic floor accommodating a further large bedroom and en-suite. The house are organized in a terrace which addresses the paved entry area. The stepping of the roof line and of the plans of the houses integrates the development to the scale of the site. Particular attention has been paid to balconies, loggias and planting beds immediately outside the principal rooms. These provide both a degree of visual interest to the elevations, and provide a privacy threshold to the rooms behind. Parking is organized in a linear fashion under the grouping of existing mature trees. The driveway is a shared access driveway which dispense with the need for separate footpaths. These would not have been possible in the dimensions available. Floor area:: 1900 m2 Status: Completed 2003 Design Team: Sheridan Woods Planning Consultants T Garland & Ptnrs Structural Engineers A Nugent & Ptnrs Quantity Surveyors 13 TOWNHOUSES CASTLEKNOCK, DUBLIN 15

6 ELEVATION OF TERRACE O Briain Beary were appointed by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to develop this residential scheme to tender and construction stage. The initial design and Part 10 procedure were undertaken by the Council s Architect s Department. The scheme comprises 2no. 2 bedroom houses for the elderly, 6no. 1 bedroom apartments, 9no. 2 bedroom houses and 2no. 3 bedroom houses. The site is a residual area between the established local authority housing and private sector housing, and a pedestrian connection between the two traverses the site. The detail design of the scheme employs durable natural materials including natural slate, brickwork details and Scandinavian softwood windows, and is conceived with simplicity of construction and durability in mind. Hard and soft landscaping are carefully employed to enhance the sense of built quality in the development, similarly using details of good durable natural materials where possible. The design of the drainage complies with SUDS guidelines. SITE PLAN The design and detail design ensure that all public areas are supervised and overlooked in a natural low key manner, and that the road is addressed at all times by housing frontages rather than side or back walls. The corner apartments are arranged around a landscaped courtyard from which the upper apartments are entered, and to which the lower apartments open onto. Parking is generally within the house curtilages with the exception of the grouped paring in front of the apartments. Floor area:: 1400 m2 Status: Completed 2007 Client: Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Design Team: E.G. Petits & Co. Ltd. Structural Engineers Keogh McConnell Spence Quantity Surveyors 19 DWELLINGS PATRICIAN GROVE, STILLORGAN, CO. DUBLIN

7 The proposed development in the townland of Arden to the north of Tullamore is on a site that is zoned residential for the most part, but whose western end is zoned for community use and educational. Adjacent lands are being developed or are the subject of planning applications, and a recently adopted Local Area Plan seeks to stitch together the partially built reality with a road linkages and differentiated zoning to encourage community and commercial use related to the new housing. The scheme takes it s cue from the proposed location of a new primary school on the western end and proposes that this be situated in a parkland type setting. Addressing this parkland is a sinuous terrace of three storey duplex units and apartments. At the eastern end of the site a formal square is proposed, once again addressed by three storey terraces. The two principal spaces are linked by two curving roads of two storey houses. The relationship between the main spaces and the roads is similar to that between georgian squares and their mews lanes. View from entrance to site The development is of higher density and plot ratio than those on neighbouring sites. The higher density is achieved without impacting on the quality of the housing offered, and indeed it is proposed that higher density is necessary to achieve the coherent out door spaces with a distinct sense of place that are proposed. Particular care has been taking with hard and soft landscaping to reinforce this sense of coherence and sense of place. View of northern road View of square No. Dwellings: 152 Site Area: 11.2 acres Status: Planning Granted Oct 2006 Design Team: Downes Associates, Structural Engineers William Murray & Associates, Planning Consultants Site Plan RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AT ARDEN, TULLAMORE