The building I've chosen for my final studio project is located on 31- 36 Ormond Quay upper. It was completed in 2009 by DMOD architects. It is currently in use as offices and there's a shop on the ground floor. It is a four storey over basement building with two terraces and possibility for a roof garden on top. The south and east facades have a limestone cladding, the north and part of the west ones show red bricks.The brief I've chosen is for a School of Interior Landscaping and Horticultural studies: it will also have a community roof garden and administration facilities. The brief relates entirely to my thesis so that helps me alot, especially when it comes to design the indoor garden in its technical details. The submission for the second chapter of the thesis was due last week and it was about technical requirements and details on how to build an interior garden.
The building is very user fiendly: it is a very new construction so it complies to all the newest Building Regs in terms of universal access design.The structure is rather irregular: bearing walls, stairs/lift core and a columns layout which varies every two floors.The research submission is due on the 30th. I have collected a good amount of responses through a survey I sent out to my friends, acquaintances and lecturers and students of UCD school of landscape architecture here in Dublin, KLC school of interior and garden design in London and The Technical Institute for Indoor Gardening in San Francisco.
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