Public Choice Award
Shortlisted Project:
Jigsaw
Project: Jigsaw
Architect: McCullough Mulvin
Material choice and a will for limpid, clam spaces dictated a language of paradox for this horizontal form, extension to a Victorian house in Dublin. Board marked concrete was poured to form a textured tube, its materiality delineated by huge circular rooflights which mark the passage of light throughout the day on walls and floor. Yet this weighty rectangle skates across the original return of the house, trapping a small courtyard behind and generating a tension between the expected gravitas of the concrete and its expression to the garden as a thin-walled, horizontal form, floating and calm above the terrace.
