Field, Stonewall, House

So much of the architectural debate in the construction of housing in a rural setting in the West of Ireland lies in the design relationship with the landscape. This project is a study and research of how such a building could ‘grow’ from the site and its immediate context in terms of issues relating to scale, materials, colour, and landscape. The home is conceived as a series of parallel field stone walls. Objects in the landscape, an apple tree, a shed (a childhood memory), and views to the mountain, Coill Chnoc Meadha, are internalised and framed within the house.