Saturday August 31st 2024, 10:45
Lanesborough Community Centre
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Full PPE is required for this event (hard hat, hi-vis vest, site boots)
The AAI are proud to host a site visit in with Henchion+Reuter to a Community Centre at Lanesborough Park in Meakstown
Meeting Point: Meakstown Community Centre, Lanesborough Park, Melville View, Dublin 11, D11 N23T
Project Description:
In July 2021, Fingal County Council appointed Henchion Reuter Architects. as the successful tenderer to lead a design team to prepare designs for a Community Centre &
Associated Landscaping at Lanesborough Park, Meakstown, Dublin 11. The potential for the new Community Centre to effectively cut off a corner of the park from the main body of the park was identified early in the design process as something that the building design should mitigate. After trying a number of strategies, a building with a circular plan form was identified as best facilitating the spatial flow of the park landscaping around the new building. The circular building plan has the advantage of minimising unsupervised spaces which might be prone to anti-social behaviour. The circular plan has the further advantage of not creating any blank gable conditions to the building. This will minimise the loss of residential amenity for apartments located to the south-east of the site that currently have an uninterrupted view of the park. To further mitigate the visual disruption for these neighbours the roof form has been softened with the volume of the sports hall (the tallest volume) subsumed into a contoured roof-scape finished with an extensive green roof. The building is single-storey throughout. The main sports hall is positioned central to the plan with secondary rooms wrapped around this on all sides. The building therefore has a continuous single storey façade expression on all sides – thereby substantially reducing its volumetric presence within the park. The external form of the building in completed in glazed green bricks with a precast concrete parapet.
About the practice:
The partnership of Klaus Reuter and Martin Henchion began in Leipzig in 1994, with offices established in Berlin in 1998 and in Dublin in 1999.
The HRA office sustains the broadest spectrum of design interests and will engage with the physical world at the scale of machine, building or landscape, that is; wherever architectural consideration can give meaningful form to new ideas.
The practice portfolio is consequently diverse in scale, programme and architectural intensity, ranging from one-off private houses to cultural and community buildings, hotels and housing projects, bridges, biomes and landscapes.
