Urban Horticulture - adaptive reuse of existing built fabric to enrich city neighbourhoods, by Donaghy Dimond Architects with Dr Alan Mee and Prof Finola O'Kane-Crimmins
Part of the Housing Unlocked exhibition at the Science Gallery Dublin until 17th February
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https://housingunlocked.ie/projects/model-housing-urban-horticulture-an-incremental-approach-unlocking-latent-landscapes-for-re-inhabitation-2/
Model Housing - Urban Horticulture - Housing Unlocked
This proposal will study a defined inner city neighbourhood with a view to demonstrating how new opportunities may be found for (re-)inhabitation and enriched living environments within the grain of Irish towns and cities. The neighbourhood situated on the fringes of the historic core of Dublin has been selected for its varied pattern of settlement and evolving use and demographics, the consequent layering of infrastructure and variety of living environments and housing/building types within a relatively low-rise but densely occupied urban context; a range of conditions and opportunities that may be seen as typical of Irish urban situations of different scales. Through a process of forensic examination of historic occupancies and a close reading of existing city fabric we will reveal a range of typical conditions that are currently untapped, and develop proposals to expand existing living and working infrastructures and thereby contribute to the long-term resilience of communities.
For the day that's in it - a new model of housing for Ireland - suburban feel with urban densities - by JFOC Architects and FastHouse.
Part of the Irish Architecture Foundation's Housing Unlocked exhibition running at the old Science Gallery in TCD until 17th February.
https://housingunlocked.ie/projects/home4community/
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Home4Community - Housing Unlocked
Our proposal Home4Density is quiet yet innovative, radical yet ordinary. The Housing Crisis will not be solved by one new magical idea, it will be solved by a careful assemblage of the things we know already: The means to solve the housing crisis already exists. Homes for people in our society are created through a complex mesh of operations and agencies – The ‘Housing System’. As architects we have existing working relationships with home owners, developers, building contractors, timber frame manufacturers, housing associations and co-operatives. With these stakeholders we have analysed each part of this system, re-used the functioning pieces, discarded many of the less than useful orthodoxies, added a piece of innovative design in the form of the 'Home4Density' and arrived at a straightforward method to deliver varied, wonderful and affordable homes in well-designed neighbourhoods.
Ciarán Ferrie