CHAPELIZOD
UCD School of Architecture
15.5.11
Housing - Natural Habitat - Robert Curley
Five unit types are mixed over five floors around a central green courtyard. Both unit and scheme react to the orientation of the sun on their own scale. The scheme is introverted, with living spaces orientated towards the courtyard, while services are pushed to the exterior. This is expressed externally with vibrant coloured fibre cement cladding facing the courtyard, and understated weathered steel on the exterior.
Housing - Paired Houses - Nicky Rackard
Housing - the Gambles - Alanah Doyle
Housing - John Campbell
This is a housing project containing 20 units on site 1 in Chapelizod. There is a mixture of one bedroom, two bedroom and three bedroom units. The intentions behind this scheme were to create a village like setting with streets and laneways passing through the site which would create unique circulation pattern.
Housing - Garden, Dwelling, Park - Marc Golden
The driving idea behind the scheme was to have a series of dual aspect dwellings with views to Phoenix Park to the north and views over shared gardens to the south. Community was also a strong concept in this scheme. Every unit has its front door on ground floor level, and all units overlap in a certain way with their neighbour to create either archways, private outdoor spaces and to share a hearth. The scheme is about housing not houses.
Houisng - Interlocking Life - Aileen Boylan
The site strategy encompasses a journey from busy street to tranquil park. The external treatment of the scheme focuses on an axis towards Phoenix Park beyond, while creating usable, communal outdoor spaces. These spaces encourage social interaction between residents, emphasised by the interlocking nature of the individual housing units.
Housing - Hannah Scaife
In this scheme rows of courtyard houses step up with the naturally steep slope of the site, each dwelling enjoying a view over Chapelizod. Sunlight is maximised for each unit due to south facing courtyards and terraces, from which the alternating laneways are draped with overhanging cherry blossoms.
Housing - Ground-Court-Corner - Marwa Elmubark
Housing - R Hoolahan
The scheme is situated on site 2, between the main road into Chapelizod and the Phoenix Park. A series of three 'donuts' occupy the western side of the site. The units are punctured by a number of terraces that allow light to penetrate through the brick walls. A large shared central garden is the heart of the design.
Housing - Street View - Rosie Smallwood
Housing - D Moran
Bars of dwellings enclose a raised space for communal activity. Vehicles are banished beneath while the area above is reserved for the community themselves. Inhabitants arrive at their front doors upon private enclosed gardens or are delivered along galleries amongst the canopy of Phoenix Park. Inside spaces and volumes are defined along a hierarchy of function and necessity.
Housing - James Corboy
The aim of the scheme was to create building types which are tailored to suit their location within the site. Thus, the units housed therein could be geared towards people - commuters, families, workers-at-home - who would appreciate certain parts of the site, whether street-facing, central, or park-facing.
Housing - Voided Rows - Jonathan Steen
This scheme is composed of three separate rows of courtyard houses which themselves have an intricate internal plan, where voids in the overall block signify steps in the journey through each individual unit. The external space, like the general positioning of the blocks, aims to best utilise the steep slope on site by remaining quite simplified.
Housing - Chapelizod Courtyards - William Spratt Murphy
Housing - The Gambles - Aisling Donnelly
A new street formed in the town behind the ruins of the Gambles, through which the site is accessed. A brick facade mimics the language of Chapelizod, the double height windows in the new housing create a contemporary version of the existing buildings in the village, expressing the arrangement within.
14.5.11
Imagine Chapelizod, Wed 18th May, 7pm
Join us in the Band Room on Maiden's Row, Chapelizod on Wednesday 18th May at 7pm for light refreshments and a discussion of the work of 2nd and 3rd year students from the UCD school of architecture, who have been looking at Chapelizod over the past year. The students have surveyed parts of the town and explored designs for Public Space, Libraries, Schools and Housing. We'd like to see what you think. Just click on the flyer above for more details.