Extension to 8a Clyde Lane
- Architect:
Grafton Architects - Award Type:
Regional Award 1999 - Location: Dublin
Citation
Dublin, Under £100,000
The careful consideration and precision of the openings - skylight, corner window, access hatch and glazed doors - cut in this timber-framed and timber-clad structure animate the simple form, and transform it into an evocative object suggestive of a contemplative retreat from the city, or, perhaps, the secret world of an adult's treehouse.
Architect's Description
The two-storey extension to the house includes a painting store on two levels and an extension to the ground-floor bedroom. IOt is built entirely from timber, clad externally with cedar and internally with plywood. Windows are set into the cedar sheeting, and solid vents are integrated into the pattern of the boarding.
Client's Comment
The impulse to build an extension to my studio arose out of necessity. I needed to liberate a room in the house that was crammed with paintings. I wanted also to rationalise the storage of these. I was tempted (at times) to buy a ready-made garden shed. What I have now is a kind of apotheosis of the garden shed - a magical, wooden, box-like structure that both serves its original purpose, and creates an atmosphere out of its woodeness and its colour and light that is very like what mystics might find in a sacred space.