Boyle, Housing
4th Year
We were issued the brief of housing 12 different family units in Boyle on a site facing Main Street and sloping south towards the river.
My response to the site we were issued with was to fix the current break in the facade facing main street and create a dense living area to the main street. To the south of the site I placed three villa like units, each with private gardens and a semi private garden between each unit. There is a communal garden for the occupants of the 12 units. This acts as a buffer between the main street buildings and the light villa structures, which gains light from the slips between each villa, the semi private front gardens of each villa unit.
The site has a three metre step from main street down south to the river and this is negotiated with the stepped garden levels which are all divided off by the existing stone walls.
The villa units house two, two beds, each within three stories. The concrete framed structure allows for freedom within the plan and section to use the levelled system of the gardens and implement it into the villa design. Cutting and pushing back the envelope to create light traps double hight spaces, outdoor terraces and light wells within the block envelope.
The Photoshop renders help to show the level changes of each space and the strategically placed villas to allow light to flood through into the communal green space.
The Structure is a concrete frame, that is then wrapped in insulation, and then a timber cladding so as you can see from the model. The pillars are timber clad but disguise the insulation and concrete. There is opportunity to expose the concrete structure from the interior of the units as the building is externally wrapped.
Both units have access to their private garden, the bottom unit get the larger garden, two thirds of the south facade whilst the top unit gets the narrow garden representing the narrow slip down to the ground floor. This is also due to the large private terrace over looking the river and down towards Boyle.
