Brief :  The context is a former industrial school at the edge of Letterfrack village. The project is a development strategy for the site, including new buildings and the refurbishment of the former industrial school to accommodated a furniture college, workshops, radio station and administration for a wide range of community-let projects. The client is Connemara West, a community-owned development organisation in a disadvantaged area in Co Galway.

Area: new 2,650m2
Existing 1,365m2
Design: 1999
Construction: phase one 2001

Letterfrack, Co. Galway, Ireland
section models
concept sketch
furniture college
under diamond hill
furniture restoration unti
entrance approach
view from north

machine hall
section model

site model

Transformation of an Institution / Campus Masterplan   2001

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