Clancy Moore Architects converts Dublin warehouse into household dwelling for a photographer

Clancy Moore Architects has overhauled a Dublin warehouse, making a light-filled dwelling and studio for photographer Fionn McCann and his household.

Organised round a double-height atrium, the Avenue Street dwelling retains the spacious really feel of the previous industrial unit, but additionally contains some extra intimate, cosy areas.

Architectural particulars, from spherical inside home windows to diagonal beams, give the area its personal character, whereas flashes of color add a way of heat.

Dublin-based Clancy Moore Architects designed the inner structure to make as a lot use of the present construction as attainable.

The lofty atrium runs although the centre of the ground plan, with smaller rooms on both aspect. Dwelling rooms and workspaces occupy the bottom flooring, whereas bedrooms and bogs are positioned upstairs, served by two completely different staircases.

“The warehouse was constructed within the early 70s and had varied ad-hoc buildings constructed inside it over the course of its life,” defined studio co-founder Andrew Clancey.

“Our main effort was put into maintaining this high quality,” he advised Dezeen.

“The exterior shell was saved unchanged, together with its stunning construction. All of the subdivisions, when it comes to inside partitions and flooring, work again from this.”

4 new skylights have been put in within the roof, permitting loads of gentle to permeate the largely windowless constructing.

Three of those body the corners of the atrium, making it the brightest area within the constructing. The room usually capabilities as a dwelling area, however McCann – whose work covers all the pieces from structure to portraiture – additionally makes use of it as a studio.

Because of the round and semi-circular home windows, all three bedrooms have a view down onto this area, though shutters might be closed to offer privateness.

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“We considered the household as a society in itself, and the home, in a method, as an analogy for the city,” defined Clancey.

“The principle dwelling area capabilities as a bit public sq., with the extra personal lodging made as residences with facades that handle it and animate it. The home windows have been created to permit communication.”

Avenue Street has two entrances, positioned alongside each other. One leads by to the dwelling areas, whereas the opposite leads straight into an workplace area, serving to the household separate dwelling and work life.

Different rooms on the bottom flooring embody a den, a big utility room, and a mixed kitchen and eating area.

Completely different colors give these varied rooms distinct identities. As an example, a inexperienced door and wall marks the doorway to the utility room, whereas the kitchen options black cupboards.

The impact is amplified as a result of most different partitions and structural components are all painted in easy white.

“Paint is such a key facet of constructing highly effective areas on this context,” mentioned Clancey. “We use color to animate surfaces, and to present a depth to views by the area.”

Supplies provide a reminiscence of the constructing’s industrial previous. Perforated metallic offers exterior shutters and a staircase balustrade, whereas concrete offers each flooring and a window seat.

Warehouse conversions are an ongoing development in structure around the globe. Different latest examples embody Redfern Warehouses in Sydney and Dirk and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit in Spain.

Pictures is by Fionn McCann.