Rolex Learning Centre (Sanaa)

Sao Paulo School of Architecture (Vilanova Artigas)

Community Library - John Nolan

The scheme is designed around three central buildings that interact with the existing Church to create urban spaces between and around them.

The buildings are orientated with the relationship between the community, the park and town in mind.The internal spaces are arranged in an open and free manner to encourage both interactions between community members on both a physical and visual basis. The buildings will be constructed primarily with concrete and solid wood.

Shifted Boxes - Berta Bilger

Each room is a box and the building is a conglomeration of these boxes. The shape, orientation and location of them relate to the context of Chapelizod, but developed from their internal function. The public space connecting the rooms opens up to the environement and allows specific views out and through the building.

Community Library - Ben Dawson

The main conceptual idea driving most design decisions for this project is a ‘Circulation Stack’. This central core acts as the main organisational element through which the entire design is structured. It offers access to both public and private sectors of the brief by integrating them around the stack.

Community Library - David Mulkeen

The experiences of street and park are celebrated, elements that facilitate the extension of street inside the new scheme and house it for multi purpose public use, simultaneously in- corporating parkland views through inclusion of courtyard spaces. Three primary spaces with adjacent ancillary services. Masonry walls contrast with the old park wall, floors paved similar to the cobbled streets of Chapelizod to enhance a feeling of a streetscape.

Public Living Room with Public Offices - Linda Fahy

A textured concrete tower, which nods to the towering church and tall trees, is wrapped in glass for the low level public offices and the exhibition gallery. The tower provides a dramatic high ceilinged reading space with a large fireplace, inviting all into this public living room. With framed views outwards to the trees, church and new courtyard, there are colonnaded views inwards to the exhibition gallery along the path from the village to the park.

Protection-Openness - Eoin Gillen

The new library has strong street elevations. The internal structural walls direct the building towards the river. The elevation onto the river is fully open. The Local Area Office is a level down. A public terrace is created, shielded from the traffic and open to the river.

Community Library - Gareth Butler

Community Library - Hana Potisk

A public library is a place for big groups as well as individuals; a place to socialise in and meet people as well as a place to find privacy and comfort. The library cantilevers over the river and acts as a connecting point between the river, the town and the people of Chapelizod.

Community Library - Christina Kerr

Community Library - Louise Finlayson

The Library aims to emulate this characteristic of the town. By taking the single form of the vernacular Architecture and expressing it in a different way, the Library manages to speak the language of Chapelizod while adding a new accent of its own - turning of domestic architecture into a civic place with a strong public presence

Community Library - Eamon Bolger

The outdoor space may perhaps seem rather sheltered and cluttered as opposed to the indoor environment (the upper floor); the building’s envelope, a curtain wall of triple glazing glass that enables the visitor to experience the light and vastness of the surrounding world whilst being at a centre of knowledge and learning alike.

Community Library - Michelle Murphy

The project consists of two brick clad rectangular forms connected by a glass element bridging between the two structures. Key to the design is framed views onto the river and public outdoor spaces. Working with the curve of the site the scheme invites the village into a space where the community can meet.

Community Library -Sarah Carroll

The building forms a gateway through which the public pass through to access the public space; interaction with the library is encouraged in this way. An internal material landscape forms a space which is indistinguishable from the outside world and circulation is open and visible to reflect this.

Community Library - David O'Mahony

The concept of the building is that the existing heavy stone wall runs through the building, so as not just to create spaces externally but internally too. A library is a place where people can come and sit, relax and read, views to the Phoenix Park from the reading room and exhibition space make this easy for the everyday library user.