Architecture Factory

Cork, Ireland

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Architecture Factory

Cork, Ireland

Firm

RUA Architects

Type

Educational › University

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2013

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

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Christian Haubold (1)

The Architecture Factory is a third level education and learning space retrofitted in a disused split-level 1980s warehouse originally designed by Gerard McCarthy.

In 2011 a design concept was developed for a cost effective occupancy of the space, avoided traditional subdivision of walls and ceiling. The design utilized
6 shipping containers function as offices dividing open studios promoting peer learning. These were separated from a new two-story insertion by an open boulevard acting as an exhibition space and the main circulation creating a visually open connection between occupants to encourage interaction between peer groups. The cantilevered balcony deliberately distorts the perspective emphasis from entry. First floor transparencies offer unique vistas to the activities below.

The intervention introduced 6 new roof lights centered on open studios, new suspended radiant heating panels, with passively ventilated container offices.
Roof sections are serrated creating a repetitive texture angled southward for light and away from the mezzanine windows for privacy. The resulting textural composition creates differing compositions depending on whether they are viewed from above or below. Enclosed accommodations provide seminar rooms and storage gabled by studios.

The industrial heritage of the building strongly influenced how the scheme aesthetic maintained the genius loci.

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Architecture Factory

Cork, Ireland

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Cork, Ireland

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