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House in Bohermore, Irish Building, Project, Photo, News, Design, Property, Image
House in Bohermore Ireland : Architecture Information
Development by Boyd Cody Architects in Ireland
House in Bohermore
2008
Boyd Cody Architects
Location: Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny
Photos : Paul Tierney

This small rural dwelling, 100m2, is located in the corner of a field
on the edge of the village of Graiguenamanagh, on a south-facing hill
overlooking mount Brandon. Two boundary walls one retaining the other
freestanding form a forecourt off the public road and anchor the building
to the site.

Set within a square footprint of 15x15m, five single storey volumes,
increasing internally in width from 1 to 5m and in height from 2.1
to 2.7m in step with the landscape, descend down the hillside. The
volumes are drawn apart to create a series of open ended external
courtyards between the rooms of the house, potentially doubling the
perceived area of accommodation.

The dwelling remains closed to the road, where a recessed entrance
formed out of the first volume makes a covered threshold. A doorway
set between two parallel walls leads into the enfilade of rooms that
in turn open to the courtyards and meadow below.

A simple, economic and unembellished palette of materials is employed
to reinforce the concept of the house. Walls are rendered externally
and in part internally, a polished concrete floor is used throughout
extending in part into the courtyards. Iroko sliding timber screens
form the intermittent glazed walls to the open side of the volumes.
The roof is covered with a sedum blanket to replace the building footprint.
A gravel forecourt and pathway extend around the house with a series
of stepped gardens set out along the eastern edge mirroring the fall
of the rooms inside and the meadow below is reinstated.
House in Bohermore images / information from Boyd Cody Architects
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