Irish lesson: a carefully transformed traditional farm shows how Bungalow Blight can be counteracted.As the miraculous Irish economy burgeons, prosperous parts of the countryside are being covered by a rash of villas, each separated from neighbours by a garden and total indifference to appearance, style, tradition, materials, massing and manners. Topography and microclimate microclimate Climatic condition in a relatively small area, within a few feet above and below the Earth's surface and within canopies of vegetation. Microclimates are affected by such factors as temperature, humidity, wind and turbulence, dew, frost, heat balance, are ignored in this low-density, land-greedy travesty of suburban development. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Wheatfield Courtyard is a riposte ri·poste n. 1. Sports A quick thrust given after parrying an opponent's lunge in fencing. 2. A retaliatory action, maneuver, or retort. intr.v. . David Mc Dowell wanted to show how the traditional agricultural farm type of County Dublin County Dublin (Irish: Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath), or more correctly today the Dublin Region[1] (Réigiúin Átha Cliath), is the area that contains the city of Dublin, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland as well as the largest can be translated into modern housing, a strategy that helps both save old buildings and increase density of rural settlements. He took a decayed farmyard, and by judicious ju·di·cious adj. Having or exhibiting sound judgment; prudent. [From French judicieux, from Latin i restoration, demolition and new building converted it into a house. Two of the existing stone buildings have been converted, re-harled and refenestrated (openings were retained with new frames). They are at right-angles to each other and are linked by a new node, a glass, cedar and galvanized gal·va·nize tr.v. gal·va·nized, gal·va·niz·ing, gal·va·niz·es 1. To stimulate or shock with an electric current. 2. steel box that relates the different levels of the two existing buildings. From this box, another projects westward, offering the parlour extensive views of the surrounding countryside--unlike the spaces in the masonry blocks, which look in to the old farmyard. Clearly, such a building had rich clients, but the jury felt that it has lessons to offer for less prosperous people. Good existing buildings have been kept and enhanced; a model of dense development is suggested; materials have been handled in an exemplary manner, with old and new distinct, but sympathetic to each other, a sympathy that will grow as the cedar weathers to its final grey. The jury felt that it set a geometrical and tectonic tectonic /tec·ton·ic/ (tek-ton´ik) pertaining to construction. example of how Bungalow Blight blight, general term for any sudden and severe plant disease or for the agent that causes it. The term is now applied chiefly to diseases caused by bacteria (e.g., bean blights and fire blight of fruit trees), viruses (e.g., soybean bud blight), fungi (e.g. might be mitigated. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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