IAF Select 10 exhibitors for ‘A Space for Learning’ National Exhibition Tour
Published: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) he Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) has selected 10 school/architect or architectural graduate teams to feature in a national exhibition tour of A Space for Learning, a design competition where architects work with Transition Year students to take a freshlook at the design of educational spaces.
The shortlisted participants hail from counties Cavan, Limerick, Louth, three from Cork and four from Dublin. Each successful school/architect or architectural graduate team will now receive funding from the IAF to develop their design ideas into models, films, collages and installations for exhibition around Ireland in Autumn 2010.
The ten exhibitors are:
St. Patrick’s College Cavan/NJBA Architects+Urban
Designers, Castletroy College Limerick/Donoghue Corbett Architects,
Dundalk Grammar School Louth/Idir Architecture,
St. Mary’s Secondary School Mallow/Chora Design Studio,
Scoil Phobail Bheara Castletownbere/Magee Creedon Kearns Architects,
St Angela's College Cork City/O’Donnell + Tuomey,
St. Paul’s College Raheny/Robert Bourke Architects,
St. Dominic’s Secondary School Ballyfermot/Greenan Reddington Murray Architects,
Mercy College Coolock/Helen Kelly,
Laura O’Brien & Faela Guiden
and Sandford Park School Ranelagh/Federico Scoponi.
“The standard of designs submitted was really impressive”, said IAF Education Curator, Rachel McAree, who chaired the selection panel with Emmet Scanlon (Architecture Advisor to the Arts Council) and Helen O’Donoghue (Senior Curator and Head of Education and Community Programmes, IMMA).
“Ideas proposed include outdoor and indoor learning spaces and some really great ideas about utilising infill
and ‘dead’ space in schools. We’re very excited to see how the students and architects will work together to construct their designs over the coming months”.
Thomas Campbell, TY Student at Dundalk Grammar summed up the student experience of the
project: “I thought architecture was just about construction. I never realised it could be so creative and about different ideas”.
A Space for Learning is the inaugural project of the IAF’s new education programme. It featured more than 1,500 students in 90 schools working with 120 architects around the country to design acreative response to the concept ‘a space for learning’ between January and March 2010. You can view participants’ ideas, images and experiences at www.aspaceforlearning.blogspot.com.
For more information or to be a part of the IAF’s education programme in the future, Email: info@architecturefoundation.ie
A Space for Learning is an initiative of the Irish Architecture Foundation. It is funded through the Environment Fund of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and additionally funded by the Department of Education and Skills.
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