RESIDENTIAL
MONKSTOWN
Copper Clad Addition & Transformation Of A 19th Century Former Gate Lodge
Location:Monkstown South County Dublin
Status:Completed 2006
Client:Private
This project is for the refurbishment and extension of an 1870’s single storey
gardener’s cottage. While the works involved the complete refurbishment of
the existing house, the focus of the intervention lay in the extension and its
relationship with the existing house and garden.
The core of the clients’ brief was to transform the dark internal layout and
provide distinct and spacious living areas with a connection to the west facing
side garden, which was largely ignored by the existing house.
The entrance porch and a chimney stack were removed and two small rooms
at the garden end opened up and lowered to provide a living area.
The extension is positioned to maximise the potential of the site and the
existing house in terms of the orientation, garden, privacy and rationalisation
of the internal layout. It contains a new kitchen and dining area and is
connected to the existing house through a timber clad glazed link with sliding
screens creating a flexible open plan living space. This link sits unobtrusively
underneath the roof of the existing house, provides a new entrance,
circulation area and connection to the garden.
The entrance area is lowered to provide for higher floor to ceiling levels in
contrast to the existing house. The stone floor is carried through from the
exterior to the interior and out again in a continuous plane to form a new
external terrace to emphasize the sequence of entrance, hallway, living
space, terrace and garden beyond. The stone is also continued throughout
the circulation areas in the existing house strengthening the connection of the
new and old.
| Site Area: | 600 M2 |
| Floor Area of Existing House: | 128 M2 |
| Floor Area of Extension: | 53 M2 |
| Total Floor Area of House: | 181 M2 |
PRESS
SUMMER 2005
Image Interiors
JULY / AUGUST 2005
RIAI Architecture Ireland
DECEMBER 2005
Plan Magazine
AUGUST 2010
Sunday Times Home Supplement
APRIL 2013
The Guardian Newspaper
APRIL 2014
At Home
AWARDS
2004 AAI ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATION IRELAND AWARDS
Selected for Exhibition
2004 RIAI IRISH ARCHITECTURE AWARDS
Selected for Exhibition
2005 THE EUROPEAN COPPER IN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS LONDON
Shortlisted
