Public Choice Award
Shortlisted Project:
Coady House
Project: Coady House
Architect: Boyd Cody Architects
This small dwelling, 105m2, is located in the corner of a field on the edge of the village of Graiguenamanagh, on a south-facing hill overlooking mount Brandon. Two boundary walls one retaining the other freestanding make a forecourt off the public road and anchor the building to the site. Five single storey volumes increasing internally in width from 1 to 5m and in height from 2.1 to 2.7m step with the landscape as they descend down the hillside. The volumes are drawn apart to form a series of courtyards or outdoor rooms. The house remains closed to the road where a recessed entrance formed out of the first volume marks the threshold allowing you to slip between two parallel walls into the enfilade of rooms that open in turn to the meadow below.
