Engineers Ireland
Subscribe now to instantly view this image
Subscribe to the Architects’ Journal (AJ) for instant access to the AJ Buildings Library, an online database of nearly 2,000 exemplar buildings in photographs, plans, elevations and details.
Already a subscriber? Sign in
Red-brick facade facing mews
Paul Tierney (website) Download Original
Lecture hall at Engineers Ireland headquarters in Dublin
Engineers Ireland wanted to develop a building that would resolve their increased office needs, conserve the best of the existing site, and support sustainable ideas. The scheme effectively rebuilt an existing two storey mews building, adding a new storey over it.
A secondary archive and office unit was also built within the curtilage of the courtyard to Clyde Lane, giving a contemporary built urban edge to the outer world.
The second part of the project rebuilt the garden, providing a semi-buried lecture theatre and link corridor. The steel roof structure of the lecture theatre was canted to form an upper garden façade towards the house - the external edge was laid with timber and planted, blurring the boundaries between land and building. Rooflights penetrate to the cocoon-like lecture theatre below.
Data
- Begun: Sep 2004
- Completed: Dec 2005
- Floor area: 700m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £2.8M
- Procurement: RIAI
- Address: Insitution of Engineers of Ireland, 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland
Tags 
Auditorium, Courtyard, Dublin, Garden, Green roof, Lecture theatre, Mews Houses, Office, Roof lights, Semi-underground, Sunken
Materials
Birch plywood, Red brick, Steel roof structure, Timber facade
Professional Team
- Architect: McCullough Mulvin
- Client: Engineers Ireland
- Landscape consultant: Mitchell Associates
- Main contractor: P J Hegarty and Co
- M&E consultant: Homan O'Brien Associates
- Quantity surveyor: John D Skelly and Associates
