Brief: 47 dwellings and a street level community room in the historic
Liberties of Dublin.

A backland site was opened up when the Coombe By Pass cut through the city pattern. The urban design requirement was for a new street frontage to heal the wounds caused by the road engineering operation.

This scheme repairs the local landscape by providing a new collective space, built around a former timber yard, making a residential enclave with a sense of place.


Area: 3,800m2
Design: 2001
Construction started: 2007
Completion: 2009