O'Donnell+Tuomey | Timberyard Housing

Por Joan Cabot. London

47 dwellings and a street level community room in the historic
Liberties of Dublin.

Se trata de un proyecto residencial de 47 viviendas más un local comunitario en una localización peculiar de Dublín. Tras la apertura de una nueva vía, el edificio debe dar una nueva fachada a ésta a la vez que cambiar de escala desde la ordenanza de PB+5 (prevista en dicha vía) a la existente de las casas en la parte trasera del solar de PB+2.
Actúa, entonces, a modo de "biombo" (con un gran tratamiento de huecos en fachada) curando a la vez las heridas que el nuevo trazado ocasiona en la antigua manzana.
link a la web de O'Donnell & Tuomey

Área: 3,800m2
Diseño: 2001
Inicio construcción: 2007
Finalizado: 2009



Texto original en la web de los arquitectos:

"A backland site was opened up when the Coombe By Pass cut through the city pattern. The urban design requirement was for a new street frontage to heal the wounds caused by the road engineering operation.

This scheme repairs the local landscape by providing a new collective space, built around a former timber yard, making a residential enclave with a sense of place."

"The scheme works between the six storey scale proposed in general along the new Cork Street corridor and the smaller scale of the existing houses behind the site. The new buildings are in brick, with hardwood windows and screens to terraces and roof gardens. The windows are offset from each other in the walls to work with the complexity of the residential accommodation within, and to emphasise the continuity of the brick surface. The walls are modulated with recessed porches and terraces and projecting bay windows to give a depth and complexity to the building's edge and an interface between the private world of the house and the neighbourhood.

The scheme provides scale, identity and a piece of living city, connecting new development in the area to the historic character of the Liberties."

Per Joan Cabot. London.

Street view.

Context.

Entrance to courtyard.

Dual aspect living.

Watercolour sketch.

Site plan.

Ground floor plan.

Third floor plan.

Fourth floor plan.