Saturday June 15th 2024, 10:45
14 Garville Lane D06 E8E8 Dublin 6
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Full PPE is required for this event (hard hat, hi-vis vest, site boots)
Meeting Point :14 Garville Lane, Rathgar, D06 E8E8
Architect’s Description:
A family dwelling designed to sit into a mews lane characterised by stone coachhouses to the rear of a brick-built Georgian terrace. The house is sunken to the rear to submerge the living spaces in an existing stone walled garden environment.
Striking a balance between the stone and brick context, walls are constructed in a naturally toned off-white clay brick. Each brick is laid as a stack-bonded stretcher oriented with the length of the site, revealing stack-bonded header faces at front and rear elevations.
The plan is organised orthogonally to the Georgian plots, while the lane skews at an angle of 20°. Rather than turning in parallel with the angled lane (requiring special bricks), full bricks step along the angle in a sawtooth pattern, creating tension and interest at the front elevation. Residual wedges are used for planting, car parking and defensible space.
In order to resolve the angle and the square, a pure circle or arc is used at intersections. This motif is repeated internally to soften junctions, resolve clashes and form pleasant enclosure – a mathematical approach that aims to create a sense of harmony and calm.
Architects’ Statement:
Gró.Works is an architecture practice with a focus on crafted, thoughtful and delightful spaces. Our interests lie in complex but practical design, in solutions born out of collaboration with makers and in the serendipity of the unexpected. We endeavour to create work that is enriched by a tension between the ambition of the studio environment and the tradition of the construction site.
We design and make in a new purpose-built space in Ranelagh, at the urban periphery of Dublin City, on the threshold of big and small – a position we like to inhabit in the way we work and the way we think. Gró.Works is led by Donal Groarke and Ultan Ó Conchubhair.
We make optimistic and ambitious architecture.