McCullough Mulvin Architects

Dublin Dental Hospital

Dublin Dental Hospital
© Christian Richters

DUBLIN DENTAL HOSPITAL

Mccullough Mulvin Architects

ARCHITECTS
Mccullough Mulvin Architects

LOCATION
4 Leinster Road, Louis Lane, Dublin 6, Ireland

CATEGORY
Dental Clinic

PROJECT YEAR
2010

PHOTOGAPHS
Christian Richters

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
O’Connor Sutton Cronin

MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
Homan O’Brien

QUANTITY SURVEYORS
Brendan Merry & Partners

HEALTH & SAFETY CONSULTANTS
Bruce Shaw Safety Management

FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERS
Michael Slattery & Associates

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Joseph McNamee & Sons / Michael McNamara & Co. / Neil Martin Construction Ltd

Text description provided by architect.

The project takes on five contiguous Protected Structures in central Dublin and converts them as the offices, library and gallery of the Dublin Dental Hospital. 

The five buildings in a terrace, three Georgian and two Victorian ones, have many of the problems associated with buildings of their age.

Dublin Dental Hospital
© Christian Richters
Dublin Dental Hospital
© Christian Richters

They will be upgraded to modern standards of fire safety, insulation and accessibility by very careful work on the fabric, using all means (voids, fireplaces, floor voids) to address deficiencies without damaging older materials, spaces or finishes.

Older finishes, opes, doors and windows are all retained where possible.

A series of new lightwells are dropped through the fabric to bring light to the lower levels, forming niches and spaces around an expanded modern central corridor intervention used for the display of the Hospitals collection of art; the spaces literally work as a gallery as well as a circulation space.

Dublin Dental Hospital
© Christian Richters
Dublin Dental Hospital
© Christian Richters

The rooftop is transformed by the addition of dramatic new ‘pods’ overlooking Trinity College containing a library and art display spaces.

Overall, the work to conserve existing fabric and to sustainably add coherent and appropriate modern work to it is complex but results in architecture which gains by the juxtaposition .

The work was being carried out under the terms of the new Government form of Contract.

Dublin Dental Hospital
© Christian Richters


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McCullough Mulvin Architects
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