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Timberyard Housing

The development consists of a new housing scheme comprised of 47 dwellings and a street level community facility in the historic Liberties area of Dublin.  The project was generated by the construction of the Coombe By Pass. A backland site was opened up and the urban design requirement was for a new street frontage to heal the wounds caused by the road engineering operation.  The design centres on a new public space on the site of a former timber yard, making a residential enclave with a sense of place.
 
The scheme works between the six storey scale proposed in general along the new Cork Street corridor and the smaller scale of the existing houses behind the site.  The new buildings are in brick, with hardwood windows and screens to terraces and roof gardens. The windows are offset from each other in the walls to work with the complexity of the residential accommodation within, and to emphasise the continuity of the brick surface.  The walls are modulated with recessed porches and terraces and projecting bay windows to give a depth and complexity to the building’s edge and an interface between the private world of the house and the neighbourhood.  The development proposes to provide scale, identity and a piece of living city, which connects new development in the area to the historic character of the Liberties.