Photo by Jack Hogan
Saturday, September 27th 2025, 11:00
Tickets on Eventbrite
Meeting Point :
Rock Road East, Blackrock, Co. Louth, A91 F2N8 LINK
Full PPE required : Hard hat, high vis and site boots required. Gloves and glasses are optional.
The AAI are really excited to host a site visit to Blackrock Co. Louth with Cineál Research + Design and Jack Hogan
Photo by Jack Hogan
Project Description:
This new, single-story house is an overgrown piece of timber furniture overlooking the Irish Sea and the Cooley Mountains. The frame structure perches on a block plinth to allow every eastern room to take in every angle of this beautiful view. Three timber trusses interlock to create a cranked plan that comprises an introverted bedroom/study wing and an extroverted living/guest wing, meeting at a central kitchen. Its slate roof is a craggy range of pitches that crack open to the sky and that extend to hang over verandas.
Client:
Private
Design Team:
Architects: Cineál Research & Design and Jack Hogan
Structural /Service Engineers: Conor Kean SDS Consulting Engineers
Landscape Design: Rachel Gallagher
Contractor: Courtbane Construction
Photo by Jack Hogan 
Photo by Jack Hogan
Architects’ Statement:
Cineál Research + Design is a collaborative architectural practice led by Phoebe Brady and Sarah Doheny since 2021. Cineál identifies with an environmentally sensitive practice where drawing, designing and building processes are rooted in place, connecting local landscape knowledge, ecology, geology, climate and weather. Their project ‘Tiny House by the Sea’ was a special mention in the AAI Awards 2025.
The studio uses experimental forms of mapping and observation as a way to understand the iterative ecologies between communities and their environments. This has involved modes including – but not limited to walking, drawing, photography, sound recording and public engagement. Their current research focuses on the life of rivers through discursive interdisciplinary workshop, in projects such as ‘Take Me to the River’, a collaboration with Solstice Arts Centre and ‘The River Alive’ with Avonmore Catchment Collective.
Jack Hogan is an artist and former SANAA employee whose work focuses on the rich sociality of everyday life, foregrounding friendship and what constitutes good shared lives and places.
Photo by Jack Hogan 
Photo by Jack Hogan