O'Donnell & Tuomey: housing, Dublin, Ireland.The historic Liberties area of Dublin is largely residential in character with significant nineteenth-century industrial developments within or behind the street edge of Georgian houses. O'Donnell & Tuomey's project for 45 social housing units and a community building aims to repair a small corner of this historic area where a new road cuts through the existing fabric. The aim is to create a residential enclave enclave /en·clave/ (en´klav) tissue detached from its normal connection and enclosed within another organ. en·clave n. A detached mass of tissue enclosed in tissue of another kind. with a sense of place, while also providing a south-facing edge to busy Cork Street Cork Street is a street in Mayfair in the West End of London, England. It is very well-known in the British art world for the commercial art galleries that dominate the street. . This is to be achieved without sealing off the rest of the site behind an unbroken wall of building. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The proposal mediates between the six-storey scale suggested by the new Cork Street corridor and the more modest scope of the existing houses behind the site. New parts vary from three storeys to six storeys in height. The two six-storey elements at the Cork Street side act as anchoring bookends to the ensemble and relate to the scale of a new building currently under construction on the neighbouring site. New elements will be in brick, with hardwood hardwood: see wood. hardwood Timber obtained from broad-leaved, flower-bearing trees. Hardwood trees are deciduous trees, except in the warmest regions. windows and screens to terraces and roof gardens. Walls are modulated mod·u·late v. mod·u·lat·ed, mod·u·lat·ing, mod·u·lates v.tr. 1. To adjust or adapt to a certain proportion; regulate or temper. 2. with recessed re·cess n. 1. a. A temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit. b. The period of such cessation. See Synonyms at pause. 2. porches, terraces and projecting bay windows to give depth and complexity to the building edge. Construction starts in January 2007. C. S. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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