Affordable Housing Building

Client: Dublin City Council
Completed March 2009

The commission for the Affordable Apartment Block was as a result of winning an international design competition, which attracted 106 entries from throughout Europe and North America.
The winning design is a seven-storey building containing eleven one and two bedroom apartments over a ground floor shop, on a prominent corner site in Dublin city centre near Merrion Square.  The assessors noted that the entry was:

“A beautifully presented scheme.  It is ambitious in its treatment of the urban domain and in its use of light and exploitation of views within each apartment.  A clear hierarchy is shown in the structure, planning and organisation of apartments with an integrated approach to sustainable issues of heating, energy and recycling.  It was one of the few schemes which depicted every architectural detail as well as showing social interaction.”

Project team:
Seán Harrington, Ryan Gillespie, Catherine Desjardins, Paul Mulhern, Andrew Lamont.

*project commenced by Howley Harrington Architects (Partner in charge Seán Harrington)