Dunshaughlin Pastoral Centre

McGarry Ni Eanaigh Architects have provided a parish office, café, multi-purpose hall, meeting rooms and a youth room in a single storey building, which sits between the village of Dunshaughlin’s church and Parochial House. The route between these buildings defines the Centre’s entrance, and provides a landscaped area for social events to spill into.

The Pastoral Centre’s form, an asymmetrical, slate-coloured polyhedron, responds to the angular slate roofs of its neighbouring buildings. The sharp lines of this polyhedron are emphasised by a razor-sharp parapet and cladding of fibre cement panels.

The public route from Main Street terminates at a timber and glass entrance beneath a bright-yellow aluminium soffit. This flash of colour continues internally in the ceiling, perforated for acoustic properties, and mirrored by a rubber floor to match.