Fifth Year Architecture 2014/15Dublin School Of ArchitectureSemester 01

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Industria presents the work of final year architecture students in the Dublin School of Architecture. The students are responding to a brief devised by their school as part of a collaboration with IDA Ireland - an organisation responsible for attracting foreign direct investment to Ireland. The brief asks the students to investigate the Irish city of Waterford, the country’s fifth largest city. The students are asked to prepare

both strategic urban visions for the city and create architectural proposals with potential investors. The results are a wide variety of typologies that all interpret the idea of “Working Life” in contemporary society.

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The project is an Apiary Research and Development Centre situated on the site of the former McEniff Ard Rí Hotel, the visual summit of Waterford City’s North Quay.

Ailbhe Cunningham

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The Contemporary Ruin is an automated warehouse / distribution centre located on the North Quays of Waterford city. The concept of the project is to use paradoxical construction methods, such as a lightweight clad rack steel structure on the upper part of the building and rammed earth plinth at the base of the building. The contemporary ruin proposes to look at industrial building under the contradicting lights of permanence and flexibility.

Amandine Diciaccio

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A proposal based on the hybrid typology of a drone test and manufacture facility, located on the elevated north west bank of the River Suir, overlooking Waterford City. An evolving investigation into the current techno-human condition and its relationship to workplace.

Andrew Burger

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I am interested mostly in grids. The organising principle remains clearly articulated no matter how it is skewed or bent. The challenge is to either celebrate the timeless true order of the grid, or to break down the grid and unearth some flexibility within its harsh rigor. Within a stock exchange, various levels and scales of encounter occur. The spatial sequencing of public and private, major and minor spaces becomes the tie between idea and typology.

Aoife Cunningham

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An exploration of serendipitious encounters. The project is a Business Club and Hotel located on the banks of the River Suir, beside the People’s Park. People can rent a desk, multiple desks or an entire floor whilst also having access to meeting rooms and conference rooms. The lobby is shared with the hotel and acts as a communal workplace where club members and the public are both free to come to work or relax.

Brendan Spierin

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This project identifies that contemporary life has enabled a process of unravelling to occur between the ties and links of interdependency within society. The effect of this is ‘fragmentation’, pieces becoming seperated from the whole. This thesis project addresses fragmentation in the urban context of Ballybricken. Through creating a network of workplaces, a community and network will be formed.

Caisín Nic An Bheatha

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This project aims to create an oasis of tranquility and wellbeing in the centre of Waterford. Located right next to one of the city walls on Browne Street, the project intends to give back pedestrian space to the public. The scheme is composed of four units: a park, one main pavilion, three private work units, and three tea houses. The elements are strategically arranged on the site to create therapeutic moments, view points, and pleasant surprises.

Celine Jamin

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The thesis explores humanity’s evolving relationship with water and what impact that has on architecture. It examines water as commodity, utility and amenity. These ideas are being explored through a dual-purpose facility combining river water purification with bathing and other leisure activities associated with water. The structure speaks to the heritage of pier building with a rational grid of columns defining space.

Christopher O’Keeffe

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This project looks to redefine Waterford city Skyline and explores the possibilities of creating vertical industry within Waterford city centre. The four towers house a micro-brewery, the ground floor houses an oyster market while the top floor of the building houses a restaurant/bar.

Ciarán Sheridan

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Once the old jute factory and currently sub-divided into individual industrial units, this city scale building of 12,000m2 is one complete block within the residential community that is Tycor. Now 2/3 derelict, economy and re-use of materials are key to this project with ever-changing flexible sized plots for start up tech companies, local artisans and community employment schemes. Re-purposing derelict workplaces through boundary. Le bricoleur.

Conor Bourke

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The project is an office building for KPMG. The design aims to improve company’s performance through an improvement on employees’ satisfaction. In order to achieve this, the building is designed to satisfy desirable environment conditions or ambient factors, while trying to reinforce the positive perception of them by the use of specific materials.

Cora Carbajo

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The project is a national exposition hall based on the former Waterford Crystal Site. It would host large-scale exhibitions such as the Web Summit, Trade Fairs and Concerts. Around the perimeter of the expo hall office containers are suspended from the roof structure. These offices are built and stored on site and are erected by two permanent cranes on demand. When an office moves out the containers are disassembled and stored in the plinth.

Cormac Murray

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The thesis is concerned with the margins of the city in particular its dead spaces. Analysing the fragmented urban block, the focus is on the informal nature of the backland. I aim to repair the urban fabric through the reintroduction of an active street edge. By inserting a makers community into the block, I hope to reinvigorate the social narrative within the city. Through this restructuring I hope the citizens will take back ownership of their city.

Dáire Kelly

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Americana is the first truly International Hotel in Waterford. It preempts the impending influx of investment into the south east. Business’ seeking investment often operate out of ad-hoc premises. Americana becomes a place to court Investors in an appropriate surrounding.

David Lawless

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Industry has been expelled to the periphery, while previously it sat side by side with houses, shops markets and many more buildings within the city centre. This laboratory glassware factory seeks to test whether or not industry can be reintroduced to the centre. The site is a Sylvan landscape but one which has been worked, it has supported life and industry of various scales throughout time.

Davina Moody

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Dónal RyanThe project is a sports research and development centre. The structure of the building is exposed defining the spaces created and enhancing the aesthetic value of the building. The exposed structure will allow a definition between the variety of spaces and allow people to read what happens within the building through the façade. I also propose a public route meandering up the cliff, connecting the riverfront with the cliff above.

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The project aims at creating a ‘Mat building’ containing civic and private functions, to reconquering the abandoned North Quay of the river Suir. This new development is part of a group of five new buildings that plan to bring new life to the north side and connect it back with the city center.Furthermore, this thesis aims to bring Ray Ban back to Waterford, in fact, both manufacturing and design offices will find place in the building.

Edoardo Cerpelloni

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Eoin MurphyThis thesis aims to look at how an identity or image could be created through architectural and urban interventions while remaining intrinsically linked to place. As a vehicle for exploring the thesis subject of linking place and building, a design of a rapeseed refinery, biofuel production plant and research center has been proposed. An interest in the meeting of an agricultural edge and an industrial fringe was a starting point for this exploration.

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Industry is rich with repetitive and rhythmic process. This bicycle manufacturing facility or Cycle Centre seeks to become a temple of industry, rhythm, repetition and also a public asset by bridging the gap between how things are made and how they are used. It is an attempt to change, adapt and morph the repeated idea of industrial buildings.

Eoin O’Donnell

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This thesis forms an ongoing interest of mine in the experience of Landscape and Architecture and the relationship between the two. My aim is to create an architecture that is not a pre conceived style, but rather has developed according to the needs of use, con-text and my understanding of the landscape. Architecture that is not contained but rather ‘bleeds’ into the surrounding landscape.

Fiona Muldowney

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The project is a series of craft workshops and a market place situated in the back-lands of a city block in the centre of Waterford, bringing the workplace, and activity, back to the city centre. “A complex form of order, with a diversity of people, activities, and varied uses, not segregated but mixed together, are all a necessary part of a functioning city, or neighbourhood.” Jane Jacobs.

Gillian McAllen

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In the city’s historical imagery, we find different layers of past overlapping each other and architectural styles that creates the rich experience of diversity. The city as a complex organism is in a constant change and evolution. The aim of this project is to explore how inhabiting old buildings can change a character of the space and its perception in modern society.

Ilze Antonova

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The project originates from the constant alteration of perception in space. Focusing on cubist paintings and minimalist movements, formal qualities in each are re-interpreted and applied to functional architecture. Through artisan methods of production including recycling of metal, glass and paper from the region, the mannequin factory injects further life and income into a growing industry within the country.

Julie Molloy

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Based in an industrial area that is isolated, bland and introverted the tower is proposed as a centre for the area to attract people socially as well as through business. Facilities are available to everyone in the area allowing for a concentrated footprint of people in an area of predominantly low density structures. Introducing social infrastructure through the industrial zone in an attempt at reintegration with the city is key to this project.

Mark Bailey-Smith

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The project is a Waste to Energy Incineration Plant situated in Belview Port, a hub of infrastructure and industry on Waterford’s periphery. This large scale typology aims to provide renewable energy for Waterford while managing the waste produced in the South East. It is also a vehicle for investigating how the classical and formal are still relevant in contemporary architecture.

Mark McCormack

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This Brettstapel Factory is located at the periphery of Waterford city, at Belview Port; a place at the frontier of industrial development in the South East. The project is a tectonic investigation and re interpretation of the industrial shed; the emblematic building type of this place.

Niall FitzGerald

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The project is a high-tech manufacturing plant, the design of which aims to encompass its imposing industrial monumentality and bind it with a humane and civic approach of today’s utopian vision. You never experience the elevation head on, which means that the building will only be observed from far away, from the top and from the narrow edge, allowing for a bolder expression of the roof and the long riverfront elevation.

Oksana Lastovetsky

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This project creates a new gateway between the currently detached WIT main campus and the neighbouring IDA Industrial Estate. It involves re-locating the Applied Technology workshops and creating a new innovation centre for young entrepreneurs. The workshops, currently under one roof, are now independent structures with each discipline having their own individual work space and work yard. The timber roof structure is inspired by Waterford’s ship-building past.

Peter Hogan

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Imagining the wall as a mediator of space, a tool that reveals depth and ambiguity, the project looks to create cerebral stimulation in the monotony of the workplace. The design of a game development studio and public testing centre seeks to discover the role of architecture in an increasingly virtual world, using Japanese and Western concepts of spatial depth as a direct antidote to the condition of staring at a screen for multiple hours each day.

Ronan Keane

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The project is a Boat Manufacturing Warehouse situated on the site of Ireland’s once largest Shipbuilding yard, the former Neptune Ironworks, on the south of the River Suir. This project aims to re-develop this once thriving industry while also re-connecting Waterford City’s surrounding social context with the River Suir.

Ross McCarthy

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This project comprises of a Colourworks and pigment wetlands located on Little Island, along the river Suir on the edge of Waterford City. Natural dyes and pigments from local flora and minerals present on the island will be used to create a paint range with a colour palette specific to Waterford City. This will help strengthen a cultural wealth and artistic identity already present in Waterford.

Sophie Kelliher

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By relocating a periphery workplace into the heart of Waterford’s medieval streets this project brings work back into the city. This juxtaposition of periphery building in the center refreshes the meaning in both. The proposal combines a pharmaceutical research center with a non-denominational church. Science and religion are superimposed in one design. This will bring new readings to the medieval city, as well as enriched meaning to the mixed-use.

Susie Newman

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This project is a YouTube space, located in the Peoples Park in Waterford. Waterford has a history of art, culture and creativity and a YouTube space would continue this tradition, while allowing us to sell Irish culture across the world. This building would facilitate the creating of content for the Internet, from small scale vloggers to people making a 30 episode web-series.

Thomas McPhillips

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This thesis sets out to investigate the role that doors play in the design of a successful workplace, and how their application can in turn, effect urban life across the city. The goal is to re-create the current Johnstown Industrial estate as a new destination within Waterford; not unlike Dublin’s Temple Bar. A place to go or to pass by; a place to work and to live; a doorway, into and out of the city.

Vincent O’Byrne

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The Project is Hybrid Centre with an unemployment centre at the heart of it. Mixing leisure activities with the working /nonworking life. The work aims to create connections between people in an attempt to open new avenues in the lives of those who feel uninspired or discouraged. A dialogue between the occupant and the building also plays its part. How the building is assembled portrays a sense of honesty and simplicity that speaks to all.

Wayne Holmes

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