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Dominick Hall Housing

DOMINICK HALL HOUSING

Carr Cotter & Naessens + Denis Byrne Architects

Dominick Hall Housing
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ARCHITECTS
Carr Cotter & Naessens, Denis Byrne Architects

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Cunnane Stratton Reynolds

QUANTITY SURVEYOR
John J Casey & Co.

MANUFACTURERS
Idealcombi

DESIGN DIRECTOR
David Naessens

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR/ASSIGNED CERTIFIER
Denis Byrne

PROJECT ARCHITECT (FAÇADE)
John Mark Vinten

DESIGN CERTIFIER
Louise Cotter

TECHNICAL
Andy Burdon

PROJECT ARCHITECT
Julien Camuset

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Duggan Brothers Ltd

GLAZING
Hodgins Architectural Facades

ARCHITECT
Natalia Cagnone

TECHNOLOGIST
Ola Odunlade

JOINERY
Gem Group

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Nicholas O Dwyer

SERVICES ENGINEERS
Mma Consulting Engineers

PHOTOGRAPHS
Paul Tierney

AREA
15808 m²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Dublin, Ireland

CATEGORY
Housing

Dominick Hall Housing
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PROJECT BACKGROUND/CONTEXT

The site is located on part of the previous Dominick Street flats complex on the east side of Lower Dominick Street, Dublin 1, at the junction with Parnell Street.

The mixed-use development for Dublin City Council includes apartments and townhouses with a community center and retail space at street level.

The six-story block along Dominick Street consists of a terrace of 6 apartment “houses” of 5 stories, providing 67 apartments over the ground floor community center and commercial space.

Dominick Hall Housing
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Dominick Hall Housing
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Dominick Hall Housing
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A short terrace of 5 townhouses defines Dominick Place, a new street linking Dominick Street to Granby Place.

DESIGN SOLUTION

The masterplan strategy for this project seeks to reinstate the historically well-defined character of dominick street as both place and conduit to the cultural heart of the city.

We have reinstated the street face as a brick skin but layered it to provide a continuous south-facing loggia that will provide convivial open space for residents and shelter from the rain.

Dominick Hall Housing
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Dominick Hall Housing
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Dominick Hall Housing
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This provides an acoustic and visual barrier for the apartments to the noisy street below. The corner block on Parnell Street has quite a complex urban task, which justifies a more sculptural form.

It must negotiate the different scales of Parnell Street and Dominick Street and read clearly as a distinct building of civic scale, with its own language of openings and material aesthetic.

The corner building includes more particular and bespoke accommodation including 3 high dependency apartments with adjustable kitchens and bathrooms with assistive technology.It is a small landmark on Parnell Street for this revived urban quarter. 

Dominick Hall Housing
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Dominick Hall Housing
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Dominick Hall Housing
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The Apartment House is the building block of the project; there are 6 houses each with stairs and a core arranged along the courtyard.

Each apartment has a central hall sized to a turning circle which is placed in the living room to the sunny street side and a pair of bedrooms to the courtyard.

The low ceiling of the entrance vestibule accentuates the generous cubic volume of the central hall.

Dominick Hall Housing
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Dominick Hall Housing
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Dominick Hall Housing
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The two main entrances are located off Dominick Street. Each entrance is a voluminous brick-lined hall with stairs and lifts leading to the upper courtyard from where the six apartment houses are accessed.

The courtyard is defined to the rear by a story-height raised structure that is planted with a row of trees to screen and protect from wind. The structure below includes storage and plant rooms, and the Marian shrine from the old flats. The garden spaces are landscaped as rooms, including seating areas, lawns, and play spaces.

The courtyard is excavated at one point to create a sunken garden for the community center at street level. The project is designed to achieve NZEB standards. We developed a clearly defined and highly insulated and airtight envelope and care was taken to detail out thermal bridging.

Dominick Hall Housing
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Dominick Hall Housing
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The building is equipped with air-source heat pumps, rainwater harvesting, photovoltaic panels, and centralized ventilation systems with heat exchange.


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