Sillogue 8, Ballymun

Client;  Ballymun Regeneration Ltd.
Planning stage

Sillogue 8 is a new street of housing along the realigned Sillogue Avenue in Ballymun.
The ‘dog-tooth’ composition of intermittent single and three storey elements in the new terrace allows for a three-storey enclosure of the street, as viewed obliquely when travelling down the street. It also provides a non – continuous three storey terrace, as viewed perpendicularly from the existing houses directly behind, to the north. This avoids the existing houses being overshadowed by a continuous three storey new terrace. The composition also allows for the new upper level dwellings to have a generously sized roof terraces at first floor level, benefiting from good south facing light and sun.
The terraced street is punctuated at the east, entrance-end with a pair of matching four storey apartment buildings to create a neighbourhood gateway and introduce a threshold to a new street with a distinct ‘sense of place’.

Project team:
Seán Harrington, Aleyn Chambers, Gavin Smyth, Nuala Flood, Brian Hutchinson, Stephanie Backhaus, Amelie Conway, Christina Gratz, Aoife Leonard