Housing & Research Facility_
Location:              Rush, Co. Dublin_
No. Units:           16 Dwelling units_
                              1 Pallative Care Centre_
                              1 Marine Biology Research Facility
Unit areas:          140 / 320 m2
Site area:             5000m2
Year:                     2012

“ The Housing project presented many challenges, housing by it’s nature is a highly complex issue, and is best described by Le Corbusier as “the problem of the epoch”. This project is representative of communality, with a suggestion of shared experiences, social interaction and the heightened responsibility for the shaping of spaces to facilitate this idea. One realises that there is the challenge of the suppression of the individual in favour of the collective. It was my intention to design a project which proposes a qualitative impact on the physical and social environment which is bigger than the sum of the individual units. As one walks through Rush, it becomes apparent that a pattern is forming along the street, each block of houses has a lane-way in the centre, which leads down to the vast farmyards which stretch down to the shoreline. This break in the houses allows one a view towards a world of long narrow glass houses and furrowed land, all of which are part of the rich tapestry of the agricultural industry in rush.”