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Charleville
Architect:
Scullion Architects
Award Type:
Irish Architecture Awards
Location:
Dublin
A one-bed, badly-functioning urban cottage near the Royal Canal in the north-inner city of Dublin has been transformed into a two-bed A-rated family home. Working on a tight budget, and on an even tighter site, certain architectural moves, small and significant alike, have made this possible: by digging down at the back, by widening the entrance hall, by making walls into working storage places, by fabricating a new compliant staircase and by bursting through the ceiling in surprising places to make light wells! The new warm, bright and enclosing rooms enable family life, without sacrificing the urban garden and also includes a home office. Charleville demonstrates that such buildings, when carefully recrafted, can become hardworking homes for twenty-first century living.