The areas I work in are covered by the Mayo Design Guide<\/a> and Galway Design Guide<\/a>; any Councils (such as Roscommon) that don’t have a specific guide adopt the same principles will also refer to these.<\/p>\n Three key principles of ‘West of Ireland’<\/em> style are outlined below (there are stacks more guidelines to follow but these are three key issues):<\/p>\n 1. Narrow plan<\/strong><\/p>\n Image from Mayo Rural House Design Guide<\/p><\/div>\n The narrow plan is to move away from its antithesis of the ‘deep’ plans that occurred when roof truss designs allowed increased spans – the narrow depth plan at 6.5-7.5m harks back to the Irish cottage designs of earlier years. The house will then need to be broken into smaller, narrower forms in order to meet the current requirements of accommodation.<\/p>\n 2. Window Proportions<\/strong><\/p>\n The design guides are looking for window designs that are better proportioned. The traditional proportion of Windows to the traditional Irish cottage would have been ‘more vertical than horizontal’<\/i>. The ‘panoramic’ style window that came about in the ’70’s arose from improved window construction and larger panes of glass. The design guides are looking to return to a proportion closer to the vertical golden section. The diachotomy occurs when considering increasing the glazed areas to increase solar gain on spaces facing south (northern hemisphere):<\/p>\n Image from Mayo Rural House design guide<\/p><\/div>\n 3. Low impact<\/strong><\/p>\n Rather than cut out a chunk of land to site the house (see below); the house should be carefully sited to cause minimal visual disturbance; this includes the house not breaking the skyline:<\/p>\n Image from Mayo Rural Design Guide<\/p><\/div>\n Image from mayo Rural Design Guide<\/p><\/div>\n These guides may appear to constraining but you can understand how they came about when the majority of Irish houses aren’t designed by architects. The writers of the design guides (one of whom I know reasonably well) don’t want to constrain creative, contemporary design. What they are looking for is design that follows the guideline principles of scale and proportion but also allows contemporary design:<\/p>\n Image from Mayo Rural design Guide<\/p><\/div>\n Do I think these guidelines constrain me? No, there’s enough lee-way in the guides to encourage creativity and good design. Do I think I’ve been straight-jacketed and type-cast in the designs that I do? Equally no, our own house (which kick-started my architectural practice in Ireland) was designed using the same principles and guidelines that are in use today – years before they were published:<\/p>\n To read how the other \u2018blogging architects\u2019 have interpreted this theme click the links below – time to time zone differences, I’ll update this list as they come on line:<\/p>\n Enoch Sears – Business of Architecture<\/strong> (@businessofarch) Bob Borson – Life of An Architect<\/strong> (@bobborson) Matthew Stanfield – FiELD9: architecture<\/strong> (@FiELD9arch) Marica McKeel – Studio MM<\/strong> (@ArchitectMM) Jeff Echols – Architect Of The Internet<\/strong> (@Jeff_Echols) Lee Calisti, AIA – Think Architect<\/strong> (@LeeCalisti) Mark R. LePage – EntreArchitect<\/strong> (@EntreArchitect) Evan Troxel – Archispeak Podcast \/ TRXL<\/strong> (@etroxel) Lora Teagarden – L\u00b2 Design, LLC<\/strong> (@L2DesignLLC) Collier Ward – One More Story<\/strong> (@BuildingContent) Cormac Phalen – Cormac Phalen<\/strong> (@archy_type) Nicholas Renard – Renard Architecture<\/strong> (@dig-arch) Andrew Hawkins, AIA – Hawkins Architecture, Inc.<\/strong> (@hawkinsarch) Jeremiah Russell, AIA – ROGUE Architecture<\/strong> (@rogue_architect) Jes Stafford – MODwelling<\/strong> (@modarchitect) Cindy Black – Rick & Cindy Black Architects<\/strong> (*) Eric T. Faulkner – Rock Talk<\/strong> (@wishingrockhome) Rosa Sheng – EquitybyDesign [EQxD]<\/strong> (@EquityxDesign) Michele Grace Hottel – Michele Grace Hottel, Architect<\/strong> (@mghottel) Meghana Joshi – IRA Consultants, LLC<\/strong> (@MeghanaIRA) Amy Kalar – ArchiMom<\/strong> (@AmyKalar) Michael Riscica – Young Architect<\/strong> (@YoungArchitxPDX) Stephen Ramos – BUILDINGS ARE COOL<\/strong> (@sramos_BAC) brady ernst – Soapbox Architect<\/strong> (@bradyernstAIA) Brian Paletz – The Emerging Architect<\/strong> (@bpaletz) Michael LaValley – Evolving Architect<\/strong> (@archivalley) Jonathan Brown – Proto-Architecture<\/strong> (@mondo_tiki_man) Eric Wittman – intern[life]<\/strong> (@rico_w) Sharon George – Architecture By George<\/strong> (@sharonraigeorge) Brinn Miracle – Architangent<\/strong> (@architangent) David Molinaro – Relax2dmax<\/strong> (@relax2dmax) Emily Grandstaff-Rice – Emily Grandstaff-Rice FAIA<\/strong> (@egrfaia) Daniel Beck – The Architect’s Checklist<\/strong> (@archchecklist) Jarod Hall – di’velept<\/strong> (@divelept) Anthony Richardson – That Architecture Student<\/strong> (@thatarchstudent) Lindsey Rhoden – SPARC Design<\/strong> (@sparcdesignpc) Drew Paul Bell – Drew Paul Bell<\/strong> (@DrewPaulBell) Greg Croft – Sage Leaf Group<\/strong> (@croft_gregory) Courtney Casburn Brett – Casburn Brett<\/strong> (@CasburnBrett) Jeffrey Pelletier – Board & Vellum<\/strong> (@boardandvellum) Aaron Bowman – Product & Process<\/strong> (@PP_Podcast) Samantha R. Markham – The Aspiring Architect<\/strong> (@TheAspiringArch) Kyu Young Kim – J&K Architects Atelier<\/strong> (@sokokyu) Nisha Kandiah – ArchiDragon<\/strong> (@ArchiDragon) Karen E. Williams – <\/strong> (@karenewilliams3) Jared W. Smith – Architect OWL<\/strong> (@ArchitectOWL) Rusty Long – Rusty Long, Architect<\/strong> (@rustylong) Keith Palma – Architect’s Trace<\/strong> (@cogitatedesign) Adam Denais – Defragging Architecture<\/strong> (@DefragArch) Jim Mehaffey – Yeoman Architect<\/strong> (@jamesmehaffey) Ken Saginario – Twelfth Street Studio<\/strong> () Tim Ung – Journey of an Architect<\/strong> (@timothy_ung)![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cork_design_guide-300x210.jpeg?resize=300%2C210\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_2314.jpg?resize=600%2C377\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/windows-231x300.jpeg?resize=231%2C300\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/low_impact-300x208.jpeg?resize=300%2C208\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/low_impact2-300x144.jpeg?resize=300%2C144\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/low_impact3-300x161.jpeg?resize=300%2C161\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/our_house_evening.jpg?resize=1000%2C750\")
<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.lifeofanarchitect.com\/style-do-i-have-any\/<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
style…final words<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
The AREsketches Style<\/a><\/p>\n
Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
style: #architalks<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
Name That Stile!<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
“style”<\/a><\/p>\n
Architalks : Style<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
What Style Do You Build In?<\/a><\/p>\n
You do you<\/a><\/p>\n
Defining an Architect’s Style<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
What’s Your Style?<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
Architectural Style<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
Should You Pick Your Architect Based on Style or Service?<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
5 Styles of an Aspiring Architect<\/a><\/p>\n
Loaded With Style<\/a><\/p>\n
Regression or Evolution : Style<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
Stylized Hatred<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
What’s in a Style?<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n