A handbook on Irish rural housing design, free online – printed version to come…
This post is part of the ArchiTalks series where a group of us (architects who also blog) all post on the same day and promote each other’s blogs. This post takes a slight different lead from the previous ones (where Read More …
Rural House Guidelines – Narrow depth plans There are several consistent themes running through every County Council in Ireland regarding rural house design: • Simple plan forms • Traditional roof pitches (35-55 deg) • Narrow plan depth It’s this last Read More …
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 110,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at Read More …
Second update of PROJECTS section of website with tear sheet on one-off near Passive house in County Mayo:
As the post title says “You know I’m a prolific blog poster but did you know I’ve also written these…”: The titles below are all e-books for Kindle and did you know that you don’t need a Kindle to read Read More …
Here’s a few photos from site visit at weekend (team meeting on percolation area) on the low-carbon new house in County Mayo. Features include: • Design to Mayo Rural House Design Guidelines • Very high levels of insulation & airtightness Read More …
This is the first in a week of blog posts following on from my blogging tip of A blog post a day on a specific subject. For those not completely up to speed the topic is a big one and Read More …
I was asked to cast my eyes over a planning file recently for a potential client and this problem occurs frequently with designs from others; I thought it would be good to clarify the matter and to send over a Read More …
In 2011 I started writing a series of blog posts for a possible book on the design concepts for the Irish Rural House. The plan was to compile all the posts into a published book that gathers all the information Read More …
This follows on from the post about Mud Rooms and Utility Rooms and the differences between UK/Ireland and the US Really I should have done this post first, the biggest difference between me working on UK drawings and those from Read More …
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