Granted Planning Q1 2022. Design for a two-storey residential extension to a period terraced house in East Wall, Dublin 3.

Our clients’ creative approach to their project brief created an opportunity to innovate in our design response. We reconfigured the home by removing all unoriginal extensions which blocked southern daylight into the ground floor, allowing us to reconfigure the ground floor layout from first principles. The new extension sits between two courtyards which ensure light reaches the depth of the floor plan in the original house, which has been rearranged to provide a new home office at ground level & a generous family bathroom at first floor facing on to the inner courtyard. The extension at first floor is angled to frame a view of the Italianate spire of St. Joseph’s Church from the new master bedroom. Materially, the design borrows from a contemporary extension to a neighbouring property, using charred timber cladding. The resulting harmonious relationship between contemporary additions can be adopted by other properties in the immediate area to create a hyper-local vernacular.