Structure studio Shay Cleary Architects has accomplished a residential complicated comprising a sequence of small flats and duplexes organized round a triangular courtyard in Dublin.
Drawing on his analysis into sustainable city housing typologies, The Residences at Sanford Lodge growth by Shay Cleary Architects varieties “Eire's first low-rise, high-density residential growth”, based on the studio.
The venture was additionally shortlisted within the housing class for this yr's Dezeen Awards.
“Constructing on our long-term analysis initiatives in high-quality, low-rise, high-density residential design, the scheme gives generously-sized, high-end residential items with ample open and personal terraces and gardens and excellent entry to daylight and in daylight with double. side items all through,” studio director John Dobbin instructed Dezeen.
“This type of housing gives densities akin to house developments, however does so by way of homes with their very own doorways, backyard courtyards and beneficiant terraces, deliverable in a extra economical and viable format.”
The 36 residences are organized in two rows of terraces on both facet of the central courtyard – every unit consisting of two one-bedroom floor flooring flats topped by a two-bedroom duplex.
Constructed of brick to match the neighboring buildings, every of the items is outlined by blocky varieties with structural cutouts designed to accommodate outside terraces.
At floor degree, paved walkways guarantee circulation on the positioning. To the entrance of every unit are two bronze aluminum framed doorways giving entry to the bottom flooring flats.
Inside, the flats have bed room areas the place openings overlook the shared courtyard, whereas the rear homes an open-plan residing, kitchen and eating room, the place sliding doorways result in a non-public backyard.
An exterior staircase accessed from the entrance of the constructing supplies a route as much as the primary flooring duplex, the place an exterior terrace serves because the entry level into the house.
Sliding doorways wrap across the terrace and open to the open plan kitchen and adjoining eating and residing house.
Each an exterior staircase main from the primary flooring terrace and an inner staircase present entry to the higher flooring of the home, the place two en-suite bedrooms share entry to an higher degree terrace.
Easy white partitions and picket flooring are repeated all through the flats.
Along with integrating its analysis into sustainable low-rise housing typologies within the design, Shay Cleary Architects additionally included low-energy methods that permit no less than 20% of the constructing's major vitality to be offered by renewable vitality sources.
“We integrated sustainability into the idea as a result of this type of housing gives densities akin to house developments, however does so by constructing homes, leading to higher land use, much less vitality and carbon-intensive development strategies and it's deliverable in a extra economical, sustainable format,” Dobbin mentioned.
Shay Cleary Architects is an structure studio established in 1987 with workplaces in London and Dublin.
Different housing developments just lately featured on Dezeen embody a residential complicated that mixes three sorts of housing in Leuven, Belgium, and a sequence of house buildings in London which are based mostly on Scandinavian rules.
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