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House In Bohermore

House In Bohermore
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HOUSE IN BOHERMORE

Boyd Cody Architects

AREA
100.0 m2

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Kilkenny, Ireland

CATEGORY
Houses

House In Bohermore
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House In Bohermore
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Text description provided by architect.

This small rural dwelling, 100m2, is located in the corner of a field on the edge of the village of Graiguenamanagh, on a south-facing hill overlooking mount Brandon. Two boundary walls one retaining the other freestanding form a forecourt off the public road and anchor the building to the site.

Set within a square footprint of 15x15m, five single storey volumes, increasing internally in width from 1 to 5m and in height from 2.1 to 2.7m in step with the landscape, descend down the hillside

House In Bohermore
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House In Bohermore
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The volumes are drawn apart to create a series of open ended external courtyards between the rooms of the house, potentially doubling the perceived area of accommodation.

House In Bohermore
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The dwelling remains closed to the road, where a recessed entrance formed out of the first volume makes a covered threshold. A doorway set between two parallel walls leads into the enfilade of rooms that in turn open to the courtyards and meadow below.

House In Bohermore
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House In Bohermore
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A simple, economic and unembellished palette of materials is employed to reinforce the concept of the house.

Walls are rendered externally and in part internally, a polished concrete floor is used throughout extending in part into the courtyards.

House In Bohermore
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House In Bohermore
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House In Bohermore
© Boyd Cody Architects

Iroko sliding timber screens form the intermittent glazed walls to the open side of the volumes.

The roof is covered with a sedum blanket to replace the building footprint.

A gravel forecourt and pathway extend around the house with a series of stepped gardens set out along the eastern edge mirroring the fall of the rooms inside and the meadow below is reinstated.

House In Bohermore
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