Housing - Gemma Gallagher

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

The site strategy was a reaction to the many boundaries of in the surrounding area in Chapelizod. It differs from this by creating a permeable site plan. The long shape of the houses is to catch the light in courtyards to the south and provide views towards Phoenix Park to the North-West.

Housing - the Gambles - Alanah Doyle

I created a form of row housing which was sympathetic to the existing architecture of the town. I also sought to create a new ‘village square’ which would connect the housing scheme with the town and community of Chapelizod.

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

The ground is dedicated to the creation of public allotments establishing a response to the church, and aiming to attract its most frequent visitors (children and old people) through creche and gardening functions. Housing units are accessed through an entrance courtyard, which together with a second courtyard, offers simultaneous views of park and street. At the corner of the site is a small playground.

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

The project is about a pathway that feigns the buzz of a street, stitching neighbours, visitors and routes together. It feeds the way up to an open park that holds the natural gradient of the land above for anyone who chooses to go up the path of houses.

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

The scheme is based around courtyard units; these then form a boundary around the site giving way to two public spaces divided by four single story homes. The unit's courtyards open out to the public spaces and are at split level dues to the north facing slope of the site.

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.

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.

Changing School Architecture in Zurich

Follow this link to read an interesting essay on new thinking on school design from Zurich

Rolex Learning Centre (Sanaa)