Residential Building
Using architecture to create homes for the local community in the city center of limerick.
As seen in the proposed design, the building embraces local context with the use of basic materials and a respect for site, climate, place and culture. The design amalgamates the historic structures and the new building in a sensitive way.
The building creates a variety of living spaces, workspaces, and social spaces for the community and reflects the local environment. Neither camouflaged, nor celebratory, the proposed building is located beside limerick city’s most attractive park and has an ambiguous presence in its urban setting.
Materials such as brick, glass and local stone limestone were carefully chosen to ensure that the building and site context would be seamlessly integrated.
Situated on the junction of upper william street and james street,the proposed design reflects the sites constraints. The limerick cities historic character, the historic city grid, existing site axes, existing street scape, approaching vistas, orientation, existing built environment and environmental aspects have determined the buildings location, orientation, size, form and materiality.
The site is defined by the surrounding infrastructure of upper william street and james street and the adjacent buildings to the east and north. The outter walls of the building are reflective of its immediate context.
Access to the site via bus, car, bike or foot is easily achieved with the positive redevelopment of roads, footpaths and cycle paths in the area. Bus stops with bus routes from all directions of the cities suburbs and numerous car parks are all within a five minute walk from the site.
The neighbouring buildings directly adjacent to the proposed site have been sensitively taken into account and the study of their privacy and right to light were key aspects in the building’s scale and form.
The project has been designed as a continuous piece of landscape the begins at the street edge some distance from the building. The buildings’ location optimises the use of the tight site of 305m2 and gives a use to a vacant brown field site in the centre of limerick.
The site measures at 13,250mm x 23,000mm. A significant location in urban design terms in that it is located beside peoples park and located in the city centre.
Limericks city centre is rich in history and this building has been inspired by it georgian quarter. The form of the building was not alone designed to give the maximum space to each floor plate, but instead was a reaction to the existing built environment in the area.
Beyond the actual architectural and functional qualities of the building, the structure creates a balance and establishes a dialogue with the urban location
This dialogue has been illustrated, via diagrams, in the following pages.
Materials_
As a world class development is envisioned here, a high quality palette of materials will be used in the proposed development.
Through materials, the building embraces local context with the use of basic materials and a respect for site, climate, place and culture. The design amalgamates the historic structures and the new building in a sensitive way.
The area immediately surrounding the building contains some of the most important and best preserved streets of georgian architecture in ireland.
In response to that context, the scheme is conceived as a free-standing pavilion, regular in both plan and volume. Its elevations are intended to refer to georgian proportion, scale, hierarchy and materiality.
Materials such as brick, glass and local stone limestone were carefully chosen to ensure that the building and site context would be seamlessly integrated.
It is our mission as architects to create places to live that promote health, wellness and sustainability through human centric and biophilic design.
We do this by putting the end users needs, desires and abilities at the centre of the design process. The controlling of air, light, sound, scale, temperature and materials in architecture ensure that the end user can live, work and socialise in pleasant environment.
Biophilic design is an approach to architecture that seeks to connect building occupants more closely to nature. Biophilic designed buildings incorporate things like natural lighting and ventilation, natural landscape features and other elements for creating a more relaxing, healthy and productive built environment for people.
Internally the concept is for the users to always have a sense of place and orientation. With the building opening to the landscape, the users can have visuals of the city centre, sweeping parkland, mature trees and in some instances end users can see the clare hills in the distance.
The indoor and outdoor spaces are interwoven to enhance this natural experience.
Residential Building
Using architecture to create homes for the local community in the city center of limerick.
As seen in the proposed design, the building embraces local context with the use of basic materials and a respect for site, climate, place and culture. The design amalgamates the historic structures and the new building in a sensitive way.
The building creates a variety of living spaces, workspaces, and social spaces for the community and reflects the local environment. Neither camouflaged, nor celebratory, the proposed building is located beside limerick city’s most attractive park and has an ambiguous presence in its urban setting.
Materials such as brick, glass and local stone limestone were carefully chosen to ensure that the building and site context would be seamlessly integrated.
Situated on the junction of upper william street and james street,the proposed design reflects the sites constraints. The limerick cities historic character, the historic city grid, existing site axes, existing street scape, approaching vistas, orientation, existing built environment and environmental aspects have determined the buildings location, orientation, size, form and materiality.
The site is defined by the surrounding infrastructure of upper william street and james street and the adjacent buildings to the east and north. The outter walls of the building are reflective of its immediate context.
Access to the site via bus, car, bike or foot is easily achieved with the positive redevelopment of roads, footpaths and cycle paths in the area. Bus stops with bus routes from all directions of the cities suburbs and numerous car parks are all within a five minute walk from the site.
The neighbouring buildings directly adjacent to the proposed site have been sensitively taken into account and the study of their privacy and right to light were key aspects in the building’s scale and form.
The project has been designed as a continuous piece of landscape the begins at the street edge some distance from the building. The buildings’ location optimises the use of the tight site of 305m2 and gives a use to a vacant brown field site in the centre of limerick.
The site measures at 13,250mm x 23,000mm. A significant location in urban design terms in that it is located beside peoples park and located in the city centre.
Limericks city centre is rich in history and this building has been inspired by it georgian quarter. The form of the building was not alone designed to give the maximum space to each floor plate, but instead was a reaction to the existing built environment in the area.
Beyond the actual architectural and functional qualities of the building, the structure creates a balance and establishes a dialogue with the urban location
This dialogue has been illustrated, via diagrams, in the following pages.
Materials_
As a world class development is envisioned here, a high quality palette of materials will be used in the proposed development.
Through materials, the building embraces local context with the use of basic materials and a respect for site, climate, place and culture. The design amalgamates the historic structures and the new building in a sensitive way.
The area immediately surrounding the building contains some of the most important and best preserved streets of georgian architecture in ireland.
In response to that context, the scheme is conceived as a free-standing pavilion, regular in both plan and volume. Its elevations are intended to refer to georgian proportion, scale, hierarchy and materiality.
Materials such as brick, glass and local stone limestone were carefully chosen to ensure that the building and site context would be seamlessly integrated.
It is our mission as architects to create places to live that promote health, wellness and sustainability through human centric and biophilic design.
We do this by putting the end users needs, desires and abilities at the centre of the design process. The controlling of air, light, sound, scale, temperature and materials in architecture ensure that the end user can live, work and socialise in pleasant environment.
Biophilic design is an approach to architecture that seeks to connect building occupants more closely to nature. Biophilic designed buildings incorporate things like natural lighting and ventilation, natural landscape features and other elements for creating a more relaxing, healthy and productive built environment for people.
Internally the concept is for the users to always have a sense of place and orientation. With the building opening to the landscape, the users can have visuals of the city centre, sweeping parkland, mature trees and in some instances end users can see the clare hills in the distance.
The indoor and outdoor spaces are interwoven to enhance this natural experience.