Rammed earth house
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Project • By Fuinneamh Workshop Architects • Pavilions
'den talamh'
The project brief was to create a meeting point for talks on the environment and on the biodiversity within Tramore Valley Park. Conceptually, the building seeks to frame a view to Carroll’s Bog and draw the park visitor closer to observe and contemplate the beauty of this unique landscape within Cork city.
Seán Antóin Ó Muirí
Jed Niezgoda
Seán Antóin Ó Muirí
Jed Niezgoda
The design for the EcoLab, is deliberately rudimentary. A hoggin floor offers groups a platform to congregate. Two end walls and four columns made of rammed earth enclose the space. The process of “compacting earth” albeit above ground, resonates with the recent history of the si... More
Project • By NM A • Private Houses
granerHAUS
DWELLING THE BARN
The project emerged from the search to recover an essential way of dwelling, in contrast to the increasingly fragmented domesticity of contemporary housing, often shaped by the logic of the apartment. From the outset, the client expressed the desire to live in a barn, associated with an austere, quiet, and intimate experience—almost monastic.
Rather than reproducing a rural image, the house adopts the barn as a spatial archetype capable of establishing a different relationship between openness, structure, and permanence. In contrast to the freedom of the surrounding landscape, the interior creates a restrained and introspective atmosphere through carefully framed deep openings, reminiscent of a monastery, and shado... More