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DROGHEDA PRIMARY CARE, 2011 A Primary Care Centre, medical practice suites, creche and cafe are integrated with the unique setting of a former quarry in this 5,000m2 development. The profiled contours of the site allow for semi-basement parking levels with a south facing, sheltered garden landscape. Above: Site model with unique contours of quarry site Below: Site landscape plan including convalesing home
Right: Medical practice suite, above and section through primary care centre and garden, below. Following pages: - Approach view, Donore Road, Drogheda - Development model of site strategy - Main entrance and atrium to gardens
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CONVALESCING HOME, 2011 Within our concept of a community health campus for South Drogheda, we have developed proposals for a 100-bedroom elderly care home, including patients with dementia. The integration of courtyards and gardens with the existing landscape is fundamental to the design.
Above: Sketch of typical bedroom with garden terrace Below: Overview of shared bedroom garden terraces
STAFF AND SERVICE
CIRCULATION / CORES
RESIDENTS ROOMS
STAFF FACILITIES
SOCIAL SPACES
TERRACES / BALCONIES
Right: Site layout model, above and site landscaping plan, below. Following pages: - Overview of design strategy for site - Interior gardens, landscaped courtyards - Entrance view, assisted living homes
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24 Hour Universal Design Challenge
A JOURNEY IN THE CITY
NATIONAL DISABILITY AGENCY DUBLIN 2011
12:00 – 12:45
Registration (Tea, Coffee and Light Lunch)
12:45 – 13:30
This award-winning proposal for
Awards Ceremony openingof Dublin city centre the bollards
is intended to ease navigation for
Challenge Ambassador and Awards: Chair McNulty, bothSean tourists and residents with Institute of Designers Ireland visual impairments alike; a new
cap to the bollards allows users to
Challenge Co-Chairperson: Dr. Ger Craddock, Chief Officer, turn a dial to receive an audible Centre for Excellence in Universal Design, direction to the key sights and Above: National Disability Authority landmarks of Dublin city centre. Paper model of ‘time zone’ moving wall Challenge Co-Chairperson: Professor Mark Dyer, Michael McNamara Chair in Construction Innovation, Director,TrinityHaus, McNamara Centre for Construction Innovation and Sustainability,Trinity College Dublin Below: Interactive bollard, photomontage 13:30 – 14:15 Keynote Speaker Below: Interactive bollard, photomontage Challenge Patron: Michael Wolff, Co-founder of Wolff-Olins Design Michael Wolff - On-Design 14:15 – 14:45 24 Hour Universal Design Challenge - Overview Challenge Facilitator: Julia Cassim, Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre, London 14:45 – 15:30 15:30 - 15:45
Design Team Presentations: MC – Julia Cassim 24 Hour Universal Design Challenge - Review Highlights and stories Jury Deliberations People’s Choice Award collected
Right: Competition notice, above and 15:45 – 1600 Awards Presentations: team reviewing the needs of a Tom, a Michael Wolff and Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Emer Costello visually impaired cisitzen of Dublin.
16:00 – 17:00
People’s Choice Award Following pages: Judges’ Choice Award Diagram of Dublin’s landmarks Photomontages of bollards in the Awards Ceremony reception: (wine & canapés) context of Dublin city centre
What a Load of Bollards
Eight key refrence points for Dublin..
Route M crossing Millennium Bridge between Henry Street and Dame Street.
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BEACH HUTS, BOSCOMBE, 2010
Above: View of traditional beach huts on the promenade
Below: Images of constructional layering
Our entry to the Boscombe Beach Hut competition develops the traditional timber structure to a new arrangement with two distinct spaces. A partially covered space of colour and light acts as a transition between beach and shelter, with showers, towel racks and equipment storage. The warm timber cabin provides year round shelter and respite from the elements, wrapped in a reflective skin of stainless steel.
Right: Layered assembly diagrams Following pages: - Design model showing interior space - Montage view of proposals in context - Image of materials and finishes
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AOIBHNEAS CHILDREN’S REFUGE DUBLIN 2010
Above: View of main garden space and art rooms
Our proposed extension to the Children’s Refuge in north Dublin engages the full extent of the site with a series of timber pavilions and pergola structures, accommodating the specialist therapy, arts and play spaces. Each of the graden spaces lends a particular character, all to enhance the user’s experience of adjacent spaces.
Below: View across Dublin Bay to Wicklow Mountains
Above: Detail of plan showing gardens and therapy rooms Above: Exterior image of walled enclosure to garden Below: Internal view of therapy room and water garden
Right: Layered drawing with perimeter garden wall and timber roof coverings Following pages: - Walled garden and therapy rooms - Entrance area with garden beyond - Site plan showing landscape design