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Residential Project by McCullough Mulvin Architects in Dublin, Ireland
Jigsaw
McCullough Mulvin
JIGSAW - LEESON PARK, DUBLIN, IRELAND

photos : Ros Kavanagh
Material choice and a will for limpid, calm spaces dictated a language
of paradox for this horizontal form, extension to a Victorian house
in Dublin. Board marked concrete was poured to walls, floor and roof
to form a textured tube, yet this weighty rectangle skates lightly
across the original return of the house, trapping a small courtyard
behind and generating a tension between the expected gravitas of the
concrete and its expression to the garden as a calm, horizontal form,
floating above the terrace. The materiality of the tube is underscored
by huge circular rooflights which mark the passage of light throughout
the day on walls and floor. A splayed ramp tethers the new garden
space to the ground floor of the house, glazed walls to the trapped
courtyard space offering views of a mature Japanese maple in gravel.
Boardmarked concrete walls and ceiling are finished in a light, translucent
wash, a wall lining of black American walnut at one end forms bookshelves
and surrounds a stove which can be enclosed to form an intimate study
for winter evenings by pivoting a large black walnut door out from
the wall. A sedum roof with thyme was planted on the roof of the new
structure, linking to views of the garden beyond from the main reception
rooms of the house.

photos : Christian Richters
Valerie Mulvin
McCullough Mulvin Architects
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