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Wexford County Council Headquarters
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Wexford County Council Headquarters
Robin Lee Architecture, in
association with Arthur Gibney and Partners, has completed Wexford County
Council Headquarters in Ireland.
The 11, 500 sqm building on the outskirts of Wexford town brings together the services and
departments of Wexford County Council that, until now, have been housed
separately within the centre of the town.
The new headquarters gives identity to the collective endeavour of
the council as a unified organization while giving individual expression to the
separate departments and their unique activities.
The accommodation is laid out as a series of six discrete blocks;
each block houses key services and individual departments. The blocks are
gathered around a large central space, a ‘civic forum’, which gives access to
all of the council facilities.
Open and fully accessible, the space supports the way-finding
strategy with enquiry desks, public counters and informal seating throughout.
It allows the building to be navigated in a safe and efficient manner, while
offering opportunities for civic ceremonies, presentations and social
gatherings. Separating the blocks, and
filled with planting and serene pools of still water, courtyards bring light
into the deeper portions of building and connect the interiors with the
surrounding landscape, providing a sense of place and context. These spaces
combine to place social interaction at the heart of the building and allow the
public realm to pervade the whole building at ground floor.
Inside walls and floors are clad in Irish blue
limestone, creating a sculpted interior volume with a calm, refined atmosphere.
Externally an outer an outer layer of glass wraps around the blocks and acts as the
outer skin of a double façade to optimize energy efficiency whilst giving the building a single,
coherent identity and scale appropriate to its civic status.
association with Arthur Gibney and Partners, has completed Wexford County
Council Headquarters in Ireland.
The 11, 500 sqm building on the outskirts of Wexford town brings together the services and
departments of Wexford County Council that, until now, have been housed
separately within the centre of the town.
The new headquarters gives identity to the collective endeavour of
the council as a unified organization while giving individual expression to the
separate departments and their unique activities.
The accommodation is laid out as a series of six discrete blocks;
each block houses key services and individual departments. The blocks are
gathered around a large central space, a ‘civic forum’, which gives access to
all of the council facilities.
Open and fully accessible, the space supports the way-finding
strategy with enquiry desks, public counters and informal seating throughout.
It allows the building to be navigated in a safe and efficient manner, while
offering opportunities for civic ceremonies, presentations and social
gatherings. Separating the blocks, and
filled with planting and serene pools of still water, courtyards bring light
into the deeper portions of building and connect the interiors with the
surrounding landscape, providing a sense of place and context. These spaces
combine to place social interaction at the heart of the building and allow the
public realm to pervade the whole building at ground floor.
Inside walls and floors are clad in Irish blue
limestone, creating a sculpted interior volume with a calm, refined atmosphere.
Externally an outer an outer layer of glass wraps around the blocks and acts as the
outer skin of a double façade to optimize energy efficiency whilst giving the building a single,
coherent identity and scale appropriate to its civic status.
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