MONKSTOWN FEATURES IN RIAI ARCHITECTURE IRELAND
June 5, 2005 10:34 am
Bone O’Donnell Architects’ project for the transformation and copper clad addition to a 19th Century former gate lodge in Monkstown has been featured in a review of contemporary Irish houses and extensions by Vincent Ducatez, published in the current issue of Architecture Ireland.
The works involved the removal of the existing entrance porch and a chimney stack 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.
View project here.
This post was written by AmandaBone
