A handbook on Irish rural housing design, free online – printed version to come…
Let’s now turn our attention to the importance of the site and the critical significance that where you are intending to place your house has upon the design. The design guides such as those from Cork and Mayo are excellent Read More …
Form Follows Function It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, Of all things physical and metaphysical, Of all things human and all things super-human, Of all true manifestations of the head, Of the heart, of the Read More …
I introduced the concept of legibility in the last section; that is, what it is that makes a house look like a house; this concept is concerned with legibility of use and legibility of form. Whether we as designers want Read More …
Massing We’ve now discussed the importance of the plan, the section, proportion and scale; the next important aspect that is the resulting combination of all of these is the buildings ‘mass’ and essentially its ‘form’. Notice throughout all of these Read More …
We’ve had a look at the principles of scale and proportion but how do these apply in the ‘real-world’? As well as the proportions of individual elements such as doors and windows it is also imperative that the proportions between Read More …
Scale and Proportion This next chapter covers an area of which little consideration has been given to Irish houses over the last thirty years – Scale and Proportion. Let’s start by defining what Scale and Proportion is and then we Read More …
Probably of equal importance to the plan is the section as it’s the section that initiates a response to the site conditions and transforms the two dimensionality of the plan into three dimensions. Many believe (of which Glenn Murcutt is Read More …
Basically this is the first bit of the first chapter on proposed book on Irish rural housing (plan is to feature lots of examples from all over the place and then give the book away on this blog (you’ll be Read More …
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while and prompted by a few and considering the amount of words I write anyway for magazine articles and blog posts; it was a logical progression to extend the word count into Read More …