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“Not only is another world possible. She is on her

way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing”

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1. Thesis Project“Highly recommended” accolade

Reclaiming | Constructed Wilderness

A place for living , growing , educating and discussing

I read a number of sources around the topic which I was studying and analysed

these sources in order to define the exact problems to which I was going to

try to find some form of solution; in the execution of my design project and

throughout my process. The final paper goes through my theoretical written

idea and also aims to illustrate and annotate my design process. Finally it shows

the drawings and architectural models which I constructed to represent my final

thesis design proposal and physical representation of the theoretical standing.

My thesis entitled, “Reclaiming | constructed Wilderness” looks simultaneously

at the notion of wilderness and of the construction and preservation of such

to create a better reality for our country through proposed architectural

intervention. In my thesis I analysed my interests in architecture and those in

general, relating to and looking at the relationship of nature and architecture;

at places constructed by man which were inevitably being reclaimed by the

overpowering force of nature. I am fascinated by the edges of our architectural

interventions, of the boundaries that they create within the context of their siting

and how we can blur such so that we may achieve a symbiotic relationship with

nature.

My thesis project is about using architecture to reclaim wilderness in a place

which seems natural but in truth is created from a number of unnatural

processes, sited to the West of Limerick city within the Irish cement factory

compound my project emerges from the soil. The buildings act as a new

topography on the site, one to be walked over; to allow people to experience

what is there in a new way. They also act as a framework for nature and would

allow for the eventual reclamation of wilderness on the site, thus giving it back to

nature.

The final aim being that the project acts as a critique of those places where we

ordinarily wouldn’t or couldn’t live or inhabit; to site something in a place which

seems natural but that is created from a number of unnatural processes. The

result of this thesis and research I find categorically lies in ways to deal with

disused industrial space and abused sites within our country. It looks at using

a new method of constructing a topography of place that will heal the damage

which has been done to the site on which it is located. To use architecture as

a tool for nourishment of land in collaboration with that which we perceive

as wilderness, that can reclaim the framework of architecture and through its

disintegration create a new reality of place.

Through creating a new reality of place I hope to create a sort of metabolic

architecture which at the point of reclamation or disintegration mutates into

something new; something different and cleanses and heals its site in the process.

“Not only is another world possible. She is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear

her breathing.”

Arundhati Roy

Preface to the drawings and to the project

Architecture for me meAns to shelter , to enclose to delineAte

one spAce from Another by meAns of division And simultAneous

connection. connections of plAces And of boundAries thAt previous

to its resurrection Are unimAginAble, impossible even. Architecture

needs to not only be plAced on A site And to Address the site

but to sit within A site to be pArt of thAt very site. A pArAsitic

entity which not only tAkes from its host but feeds it.

i Am fAscinAted by the notion of wilderness of the nAturAl

unnAturAl thAt exists All Around us todAy As A result of mAns

intervention And nAtures ever overpowering Ability to reclAim thAt

which is built upon it.

constructed wilderness fAscinAtes me And the possibility

of intervening in such A reAlity And creAting A new, which meshes

together Architecture And lAndscApe in symbiosis with one Another .

i Am proposing A new living plAce And extension to limerick

city, At cAstlemungret , co. limerick. the site which exists

there , within A cement fActory compound is one of mAny overlAid

lAyers of mAn-mAde lAndscApe. with A mAn-mAde lAke, A

quArry, A motorwAy tunnel which slices through the site, A wAste

wAter treAtment plAnt , A cement plAnt And bordered by the river

shAnnon to the north.

i would like to creAte A new sort of world there, A

microcosm: A plAce in which people mAy live in A new wAy. in close

proximity to wAter And in direct contAct with the lAnd on which

the project As proposed shAll sit. it will look to creAting A

number of climAte zones And buildings in the form of skins which Act

As shelter for the inhAbitAnts. it will open up this cul de sAc

in the city to the people of the city And others. the project

will tAke hints from the Architecture of eArly settlement And of

hedgerows As A wAy of dividing spAce.. it will creAte A pAth, An

inhAbited one. living in this plAce will meAn A both individuAl And

collective experience will be hAd, one where A notion of A forum

for discussion And interAction will be to the forefront.

my finAl project Arrived At A design which negotiAted between the site And thAt of A new topogrAphy on the ground. buildings were set up As frAmework for both nAture And inhAbitAtion, A frAmework to be wAlked on And one which would both Allow And foster growth within it.

Overall Final Presentation

Timber sectional model through site | scale 1:200

Map of Ireland showing geographical location site in relation to limerick city

map of shannon estuary with projected future

the buildings Act As A new topogrAphy on the site, one to be wAlked over to Allow people to experience whAt is there in A new wAy. they Also Act As A frAmework for nAture And would Allow for the eventuAl reclAmAtion of wilderness on the site, thus giving it bAck to nAture.

the project Acts As A critique of those plAces where we ordinArily wouldnt or couldnt live or inhAbit: to site something in A plAce which seems nAturAl but thAt is creAted from A number of unnAturAl processes.

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1987 2002 2012

2052 drawings of process of sites anatomical creation

Plan of building on reed bed & sketch planning | scale 1:500model of building on reed bed | scale 1:500

Plan of building at disused quarry & sketch planning | scale 1:500 Photos of site model details | scale 1:1000

Plan of building on water & sketch planning | scale 1:500 Photos of Site model details | scale 1:1000

sketch model of building | scale 1:1000sketch sectional model of building | scale 1:50 sketch of Detail

section through building on reed bed | Scale 1:100

Site plan of proposal in context | Scale 1:2500

People live there, people live in the land and on the land, they harvest and learn from the land on which they dwellits a warm protective place, but also a place where one can get in direct contact with nature in a number of different ways.

I arrive by boat to a timber plinth a threshold from water to land, it is wet the timber glistens from the fresh rain on its surface. I hear the wind rustling through the bed of rushes which protect the edge of the water, and trees planted like a collinade protect me from the wind. I walk inside a skin like blanket, I feel as if a coat has been draped on my shoulders, I see the sky dappled now ,but also feel safe as if within.

I can hear the rain fall on the surface above, I can see a topography ahead of me, undulating from the surface of the earth.

I walk along I discover some places within the land, their thresholds are barely legible, distorted by the wilderness entering inside. I follow a path created by the shaping within the land. I find a place sunken in which I can sleep it

perspective-photomontages of process of movement through site.

A nArrAtive of the plAce

perspective-photomontages of process of movement through site.

is small, perfectly proportioned to my bed I feel as if Im within a blanket, inhabiting the skin of the building. I can smell trees, I feel safe, . The smell of food wafts by my face. I awaken and meander through the enclosure. The food comes from the gardens. We harvest it and we process that which needs it on the outer shell of the building. We sell some of the food, some of us research its attributes and work on

developing new crops which may be planted here.We only eat that which we have on site, we smell the produce, we see it grow , we work with it and it becomes part of us and part of the enclosure.

The enclosure is somewhat blurred; the growth enters inside and we penetrate the shell to move outside. We become part of the growth and

that becomes part of us.

I move along hedgerows and walk to the edge of the water. I use a wooden jug to take water from the lake to use for washing the food. I walk through a number of thresholds to bring the water to the market side. I spill some now. I look down the water is rolling along the timber and then disappears down through the thresholds between the spaces

perspective-photomontages of process of movement through site.

sliding over the edge and dripping through to the reed bed below.

Children play along the water and watch as their parents collect it for farming they grow up respecting and understanding its potential and value.

They learn in some of the enclosures, learning is linked to libraries with information held in books but more importantly to physical

attributes, the water, the soil, the presence of manmade things, the scarred edge of the quarry. They learn by smell, taste, touch, sight and sound. They learn in relation to those who research and produce.

They are nurtured by the land within the enclosure and they therefore respect and nurture it.

Sometimes people arrive here and events are hosted by us however the skins of enclosure allows for expansion to such so that no further extension is needed to house such events. The people come and are filtered into the enclosures and along the paths created by the structure. They act as transitory parasites to the site which hosts them . The people who come symbiotically mesh into an ephemeral existence on site and

perspective-photomontages of process of movement through site.

perspective-photomontages of process of movement through site.

then once again leave, having not affected what is there. It is as if the site opens its pores and allows inhabitation within them if only for awhile.

The buildings or skins act only as a filter to the site, to allow those who live there whether permanently or in a transitory manner to inhabit the topography as shaped by them. to sit within the layers of skin and to create a new reality on the site that of a fourth landscape, that of a natural unnatural, a framework for life of people and finally for reclamation of wilderness.

timber development idea sketches photos of detail model | Scale 1:20

Detailed plan of living area | scale 1:100

site plan of proposal | scale 1:1000

section of project | scale 1:20 photos of detail model | scale 1:20

section through building at quarry | scale 1:500

section through building at waters edge | scale 1:500

Perspective of entire proposal on site | NTS

photos of sectional model through site | scale 1:200 photos of sketch building model| scale 1:1000

photos of sketch building model| scale 1:1000

longitudinal section through site | scale 1:500

model of entire site proposal | scale 1:2500 photo of model of building on reed bed | scale 1:500

5m perspective in the makingMy work in the design @ UL exhibition

Perspective of entire proposal on site | NTS

My sketch of the final presentation5m perspective in the making

Rossport bay , Co. Mayo, Ireland.

Eco forum and protective device

Primer Projects looking at various sites and realities leading up to the final project.

Primer Projects looking at various sites and realities leading up to the final project.

Final primer project at the end of semester one, looking at a mechanism made from timber to open and to close the bay and to collect and deposit debris to shield against erosion caused by the large stinger ships.

Áille Bán, Silver strand, Co. Galway.

a protective mechanism to an eroding cliff face

Móin Alúine, Bog of Allen, co. Offaly.

A regenerative blanket cover mechanism on a depleting vast bogland.

Shannon Estuary projectA monitoring blanket - an undulating timber framework for living to spread over the land, over time disintegrating and re- nourishing.

In this project I looked at exploring a natural unnatural boundary in Shannon

on the constructed edge of water to land. In my project I looked at creating

a blanket over the land which would nourish it; to monitor it. To look at

temperature , rainfall and collection of energy.

It explored the notion of living on the edge and of living under a blanket cover as

created by this undulating, energy generating timber cover.

I explored the idea of what it means to live and to die so I looked at the cycle

of the site from its conception, the drainage of the land, the planting of the

protective band of poplar trees, the intervention and creation of the first portion

of blanket, the growing and expanding of the system over time and the final

disintegration of the timber structures and the renourishment of the land which

has been damaged over time and by human use.

What does it mean to monitor?

Monitoring changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, wave strength.

Generating wind and hydro power

Collecting and storing rainwater for soil irrigation

Measuring soil temperature and humidity of soil.

Monitoring the edge;the boundary, and re-stitching it with a blanket of monitoring. One which starts to allow for an alternative way of living and of INHABITING space.

To think of this as a new landscape, athough artificial like that of the Poplars but, one that rots and then nutrifies the land.

WIND power collection at base of every station to travel from one to another over a network, which can be tapped into if required for inhabi-tation.

HYDRO power collection at base of every sta-tion to travel from one to another over a net-work.

RAIN water collection built into every station through the central pipe in the assembly acting as a channel to percolation tanks, which can act as irrigation to the land.

WIND WIND/WATER ~Waves WIND/WATER ~Rain

What does it mean to monitor?

Monitoring changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, wave strength.

Generating wind and hydro power

Collecting and storing rainwater for soil irrigation

Measuring soil temperature and humidity of soil.

Monitoring the edge;the boundary, and re-stitching it with a blanket of monitoring. One which starts to allow for an alternative way of living and of INHABITING space.

To think of this as a new landscape, athough artificial like that of the Poplars but, one that rots and then nutrifies the land.

WIND power collection at base of every station to travel from one to another over a network, which can be tapped into if required for inhabi-tation.

HYDRO power collection at base of every sta-tion to travel from one to another over a net-work.

RAIN water collection built into every station through the central pipe in the assembly acting as a channel to percolation tanks, which can act as irrigation to the land.

WIND WIND/WATER ~Waves WIND/WATER ~Rain

2.Photography elective at SAUL , Led by Anna Ryan.

Through the medium of SLR

photography, we studied the condition

of Irish sea side resorts in Winter. I

used this elective to explore man made

additions to the coast which had been

reclaimed or altered by nature and

its processes in keeping with my thesis

research.

The resulting photographs of which

here are some; showed an interest in

the materiality and texture of objects

which are beginning to disintegrate or

be reclaimed due to the overpowering

force of nature or wilderness.

3.DIA - Dessau International school of architecture - Semester 8 Project- Maximum city : Istanbul PoRous densification,Led by Professor Omar Akbar

The purpose of the Studio was to analyse and collate information on maximum

cities and then to select on city to be visited and examined in further detail for

those things symptomatic of such a large urban expanse.

We looked at Istanbul a city which is continually growing, we observed the fact

that gentrification was undoubtedly taking part in those oldest areas of the city

and a phenomenon taking place in many cities in the world was also appearing

there that of the creative quarters in which artists inhabit derelict city spaces

and make them more attractive so that they finally result in gentrifying the

areas thus pushing slum areas next to those most desirable the problem being

that the poorest are given the least attention in such a scenario and their sense

of community is entirely disrupted if not lost.

The solution was to come up with ideas for the integration of all members of

society and proposals to keep and also demolish parts of the urban fabric and

to inject a more cohesive and dense urbanism there to replace what exists.

I looked at a strategy which I called “Porous densification” ; In this I removed

some of the older derelict buildings and kept some others and added a greater

area of housing and some community facilities and workshop spaces to allow

both communities to exist side by side. The porosity resulted in green space

and spaces for growing food crops within the now dense urban fabric.

FERRY

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4. Urbanism Project and “Third Landscape” Elective- Burgazada,Istanbul,Led by Professor Andrea Haase

THE MIMETIC BRIDGEEphemeral Access

The concept is based on the ever changing situations which occur in Turkey

due to cultural variations which exist there. There is a simultaniety of disparate

realities which are evident .This bridging device is a somewhat ,delicate

intervention which bridges from the port to the nature : as if it were peeling

back from the edge of the island. It begins with an element , a PORT peeling

back to the coastal edge, which then transforms into a surface application and

arrangement of some small TEMPORARY STRUCTURES which divide to

three PATHS which lead through the island moving by businesses and other

facilities alike and finally reach the walking trails to connect the user back to the

nature, as if subconsciously. This intervention should be uninvasive and give a

suggestion of a new reality there.

The form of the port is decided based on the wind direction, the port sweeps

toward the wind and somehow shelters the ferry station from waves, the port

becomes a new docking point for smaller boats and offers a new type of public

social space for the visitors but, also more importantly for the residents. It allows

for the turning circle of the ferry and allows for some sheltered docking for

smaller boats due to its configuration which is also appearing as something quite

delicate perched over and coming from the water.

TEMPORARY BUILDINGS

FERRY BUILDING

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THE PROPOSAL

INJECTED BREATHING SPACE

The THIRD LANDSCAPE exists in intervened places, It is a landscape of higher

diversity than the second. Its starts to try to reintroduce a first landscape. It exists

in both shrinking cities and in metropolis. It is somewhere in between the urban

and the rural. It looks at the idea of bringing the village back to the cities. Of

reintroducing a higher diversity.

I am proposing three types of intervention which I will briefly illustrate. The

importance of all is the reintroduction or addition of a new form of bio-diversity

which would add to the appeal of living on the island long term as a resident as

a sort of a microcosm where health prevails.

The third landscape may be likened to a reservoir carrying all genetic

configurations in itself, the Third Landscape represents the biological future. An

introduction of even one element of nature builds an eco system. In any case, the

Third Landscape can be understood as part of our living environment not based

on a conscious decision so my intervention is also in a way unconscious.

3.DIVERSIFYING THE EDGE OF RURAL AND URBAN.

INTERVENTIONS

2.DIVERSIFYING UNUSED EMPTY BUILDINGS AND INBETWEEN SPACES.

1. DIVERSIFYING THE WATERS EDGE.

“The Third Landscape - an undetermined fragment of the Planetary Garden -designates the sum of the space left over by man to landscape evolution - to nature alone.” Gilles Clement

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INTERVENTION 1

INTERVENTION 2

INTERVENTION 3

5.DIA- Dessau International school of architecture- Semester 7 project- The Anatomy of creative quarters feeding tacheles, Led by Professor Johannes Kister and Professor Liss C. Werner.

The aim of the studio was to look at and to understand the anatomy of a creative

quarter and to use that intellect to intervene to create a new creative quarter or

to update one already existing. In every creative quarter there is a sine qua non

that exists which feeds this idea of creativity. In my opinion the particular type

of anatomy or characteristic really effects the quarter and the way in which such

operates.

The gap I chose to deal with was not an entirely empty one. I chose a place which

I had observed for some time as an existing creative quarter which was in need

of some sort of ingredient which would bring it back to its original spontaneity.

I chose Kunsthaus Tacheles, which originally was the Friedrich-passage, a ruin

building inhabited by international artists since the fall of the Berlin wall.

However, it is in quite bad repair, particularly that of the back yard space where

the inhabitants have built some make shift studios and galleries, there is a lack

of infrastructure and the adjoining residents do not feel ownership towards it

because it is dirty and unsanitary in nature.

My concept arrived from my site analysis, I identified problems in Tacheles and

instead of creating a new creative quarter I wanted to nourish this existing one;

to Feed Tacheles. This concept of feeding is something which stuck true to my

project from the very first day and I think it truly helped me to conclude my

design of this scheme.

The program I initially intended for was to add some infrastructure which would

quite literally Feed Tacheles but, the idea matured from this point into Feeding of

course as intended but, also in some other ways. I had researched the history of

the site and I wanted to somehow reintroduce the idea of a passage into the site.

I also had researched those anatomies already existent on the site and I wanted to

work on these anatomies, of frail, skeletal and solid to create my project.

Essentially this project is not just about architecture but about analysing the

Genius Loci of this place and creating some interventions on the site to reinject

creativity. The project has three such interventions.; a counter action “building”

which acts as a permeable membrane to the site, which has a certain ephemeral

quality. Second an infrastructure system of drainage and piping to spread the site

covered by paths and thirdly an art bazaar which can be reassembled and

disassembled along the path adding to the historical context of the passage.

6.SAUL- School of Architecture at the University of Limerick- Semester 6 Project - Public House - aRtisan bakeRy in the city, Led by Jan Frohburg, Simon Walker and Maria o’Donoghue

This project was aimed at looking at the idea of public house as an asylum , as

somewhere to escape everyday life . Where an individual may come to be part of

a collective. To begin with we had a four week collaboration with sculpture and

combined media art students, where we looked at this notion of public house. In

our installation (one photo top right) we outlined the sense of paranoia and the

feeling of being watched while doing something.When looking for a site I had to

keep in mind this orginal discovery. I ended up choosing an old mill, as below,

when I found the mill I first entered its courtyard and when I looked up I saw

107 windows looking at me . It gave me this feeling of being watched. This then

was the feeling that I wanted to alieviate in my scheme.

When choosing a program, I had considered something in the creative discipline

industrious perhaps. The program which I ended up choosing was that of a

bakery , but, not in the normal sense, rather a bakery as an art form and as an

experience of baking one type of the most primeval bread, Sourdough. In my

design, I came up with a number of rules to create an internal protective and

experiential space. I wanted to create main spaces with pockets there off. In the

main spaces light would not come from the traditional opes but from shafts,

wells and gaps and in some spaces the space would simply open to the sky for full

experience.

The journey was to be about one loaf of bread and the singular processes involved

were to help as space making devices.

Part of the brief was that the design should have an element of

HOUSE, COMMON ROOM and ARCHIVE. These were present in my

scheme in that the large chimney made from terracotta died concrete was the

denominator for house, a place of warmth of baking.

The common room was that space where the people would collect their

flour and water and other spices , being a social and physically mixing space in its

architectural configuration.

The archive would be that space at the beginning of the process where

the sourdough starter would be stored a place that’s full of history and contains

the most important part of the recipe.

7.SAUL- School of Architecture at the University of Limerick- Semester 5 Project- Social club - how can i make a Place dance, Led by Jan Frohburg, Simon Walker and Maria o’Donoghue

The semester was based on the idea of Health as infrastructure and this project

required the design of a Social Club, the nature of which was to be decided by

each student individually.

There were three different sites all with different social issues to be solved. The

site I chose was located at the Garryglass housing estate in Limerick city. It

was a place where there were evident social issues. On my first visit to the site I

could feel the tension, the site was surrounded by houses on all four sides and

there was a constant feeling of being watched.

I stayed there for awhile and met a young girl who asked if I wanted to see her

dance. I watched her dance on the street ; even though the surface on which

she dance was coated with broken glass she was ever peaceful and joyous in

her dance.

It was amazing to watch this little free spirit and somehow it seemed so odd

considering the invisible boundary that existed between her and that of the site

to which I was looking to address.

My concept for the project looked at the idea of how I could make a place

dance. Of this metaphor of a dance and the tension and movement associated

between two dancers. This fed the configuration of my structures. As in a

dance I had two main structures or dancers, in symbiosis with one another and

the skin of the building appearing as if to pirouette to from the ground and off

the structure.

Then, a third element was added which rotated and caused the type of torque

which can exist when a third element enters a dance meant for two.

8. uu- School of Architecture at the University of Ulster, Belfast. - Semester 4 Project- Landscape and detail, Led by Saul Golden. Mentor - Caelan BristowSemester 4 primer - Market intervention

This project required us to design an education field centre for Newtownabbey.

The site was located on the coast of Northern Ireland. Containing within it a

coastal edge and a lagoon. It had become a home to many species and habitats

and this was something to be preserved and exhibited within our schemes. It was

to include a design for a field centre but also for an entire landscape proposal for

Gideons green.

My proposal looked at stripping back the earth and revealing the layers of nature

ever present to make an interesting landscape proposal to raise awareness of the

natural beauty and the composition of such. As for the building it was to be the

same which was revealed under the earth as the sea bed is revealed by the

changing tides.

A short project looking at an existing market and at possible uses for the market

when it was inactive. I designed aparkour centre which would fold and unfold

and that would be hidden within and wrapped around those existing structures

in the market. An intervention which could also be disassembled to be used in

the everyday.

Semester 4 primer - Market intervention

9.uu- School of Architecture at the University of Ulster, Belfast.-Semester 3 Projects- Housing, Led by Saul Golden.

A housing project for a musician , in my

project a harpist with scale proportions

for volumes based on the Fibonnaci

series.

Later to be reappropriated as a mixed

use housing and retail unit, as above

illustrated.

10.Institute of technology sligo - Interior architectureDesign of a boutique hotel in an old mansion.

11.proffessional experience samplesBucholz mc evoy Architects,Berlin,Germany

Design of SYKE labs in Helsinki, Finland.

MCXVI Architects, Budapest,Hungary

Re-design of moritz zsigmond korter

Taylor Architects,Ireland

Interior architecture and assistant work

Many thanks for your interest in my work. If you require any further details of

the projects as explored do not hesitate to contact me.

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