http://www.donalcolfer.ie Donal Colfer Architects Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:08:42 +0000 http://www.donalcolfer.ie en http://www.donalcolfer.ie/501233 http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/501233 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:08:42 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 501233 Donal Colfer Architects <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/501233/Donal Colfer Archiects - Examiner_2048.jpg" width="1187" height="750" width_o="1187" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/501233/Donal Colfer Archiects - Examiner_o.jpg" data-mid="16886961" border="0" align="left"/> Donal Colfer Architects Martin Street project which is featured in this article in the Irish Examiner has been awarded a 'Special Mention' in the Architectural Association of Ireland Awards 2012. This project will also be featured in Wallpaper Magazine in June 2012 where Donal Colfer Architects will be featured in a directory of 'The world's most exciting emerging architects' . http://www.donalcolfer.ie/Wasdale-Park http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/Wasdale-Park Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:04:51 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 3132121 Donal Colfer Architects <img src="http://payload41.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/3132121/Section3.jpg" width="637" height="450" width_o="637" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload41.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/3132121/Section3_o.jpg" data-mid="16001965" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.donalcolfer.ie/Hook-Head-Lighthouse http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/Hook-Head-Lighthouse Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:17:41 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 3110260 Donal Colfer Architects Hook Head Lighthouse Visitors Centre - Feasibility Study <img src="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/3110260/Tower.east22.jpg" width="598" height="450" width_o="598" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/3110260/Tower.east22_o.jpg" data-mid="15879175" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/3110260/hook_OS3.jpg" width="388" height="550" width_o="388" height_o="550" src_o="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/3110260/hook_OS3_o.jpg" data-mid="15965653" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/3110260/Hook Head Lighthouse copy 2.jpg" width="391" height="450" width_o="391" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/3110260/Hook Head Lighthouse copy 2_o.jpg" data-mid="17534261" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.donalcolfer.ie/Research http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/Research Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:11:45 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 2769143 Donal Colfer Architects <img src="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2769143/Slade Sections 11.12.29.jpg" width="318" height="450" width_o="318" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2769143/Slade Sections 11.12.29_o.jpg" data-mid="14050233" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2769143/Deeps Plan 11.12.28.jpg" width="318" height="450" width_o="318" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2769143/Deeps Plan 11.12.28_o.jpg" data-mid="14050387" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2769143/Adamstown plan 11-12-28.jpg" width="318" height="450" width_o="318" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload23.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2769143/Adamstown plan 11-12-28_o.jpg" data-mid="14050477" border="0" align="left"/> Donal Colfer Architects are currently involved in the research of the architectural response to low level conflict in medieval Wexford. http://www.donalcolfer.ie/Holmpatrick-Road http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/Holmpatrick-Road Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:35:28 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 2723439 Donal Colfer Architects <img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2723439/01_Skerries_1_50_model_GDa.jpg" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2723439/01_Skerries_1_50_model_GDa_o.jpg" data-mid="13806740" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2723439/02_Skerries_1_50_model_GS1.jpg" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2723439/02_Skerries_1_50_model_GS1_o.jpg" data-mid="13808407" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2723439/04_Skerries_1_50_modela copy_2_2048.jpg" width="672" height="450" width_o="672" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2723439/04_Skerries_1_50_modela copy_2_o.jpg" data-mid="13807028" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2723439/05_Skerries_1_50_modela copy_2048.jpg" width="781" height="250" width_o="781" height_o="250" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/2723439/05_Skerries_1_50_modela copy_o.jpg" data-mid="13806890" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.donalcolfer.ie/Information http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/Information Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:12:34 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 2599543 Donal Colfer Architects Donal Colfer is a graduate of the Dublin School of Architecture at Dublin Institute of Technology and is a guest critic to DIT and Univercity College Cork Centre for Architectural Education. He has previously worked with architectural practices in both Ireland & the Netherlands and established Donal Colfer Architects in 2008 and soon after was awarded runner-up in the international Europan competition. The award winning practice based in Dublin is committed to producing well crafted and conceptually clear architecture. We collaborate closely with our clients to produce work that is original and responsive to the environment. The practice engages with a diverse portfolio of projects including working with artists, historians, community regeneration groups, housing developers and private residential clients. Our core interest is in expression of atmosphere in the creation of architectural space through the considered use of materials combined with space, form and light. We believe in an idea of generosity relating to architecture, not through excess but through an openness to situations that accommodate everyday life. Our design looks to the vernacular for its potential to serve both as an origin and as an interpretive key. The practice carries Public Indemnity Insurance and is registered with the RIAI. Photography by Alice Clancy. http://www.donalcolfer.ie/Rathdown-Park http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/Rathdown-Park Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:54:58 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 1596298 Donal Colfer Architects <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/1596298/rathdown31.jpg" width="543" height="380" width_o="543" height_o="380" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/1596298/rathdown31_o.jpg" data-mid="7850988" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/1596298/rathdown 30.jpg" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/1596298/rathdown 30_o.jpg" data-mid="16002028" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.donalcolfer.ie/Slade-Road http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/Slade-Road Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:08:55 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 541142 Donal Colfer Architects <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/541142/slade5.jpg" width="620" height="500" width_o="620" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/541142/slade5_o.jpg" data-mid="7850543" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/541142/slade2.jpg" width="668" height="150" width_o="668" height_o="150" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/541142/slade2_o.jpg" data-mid="7819491" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.donalcolfer.ie/Loreto-Abbey http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/Loreto-Abbey Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:59:55 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 608179 Donal Colfer Architects <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/608179/Copy of Internal Perspective.jpg" width="600" height="450" width_o="600" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/608179/Copy of Internal Perspective_o.jpg" data-mid="6151984" border="0" align="left"/> The Sports Hall pavilion design concept developed as a reaction to the existing geometries within the Loreto Presentation Schools' grounds as well as using the system of routes to anchor the new pavilion into the existing site. It is strategically placed on the site to link the complex of buildings with the disparate sporting activities while working together with site boundaries to create parking and vehicular access while strengthening the connection between school an sporting activities by means of a promenade through the site. To encourage this informal relationship we have resurfaced this route. Users of the hall are encouraged to approach from a northern direction and reach the main entrance via a covered, but open to the elements ramp where the activities in the main hall can be observed before arriving up to a raised viewing platform with views of the playing pitches and out over to Dalkey Island, the Irish Sea and south up towards Killiney and Dalkey Hills are framed by the structure and the floor plane giving the sense of an open sided room. From this framed compressed area the user moves into a double height reception area on first floor level which is connected through a vertical circulation system to the different aspects of the pavilion where visual connections between the different rooms/areas to the main hall are created for supervision as well as to engage the visitor with the pavilion while on the top floor where high level sea views can be enjoyed while using the Fitness room and Studio. Changing Rooms and storage spaces for the main hall are located on the Ground Floor which leads to the Hall. Visitors to the sporting pavilion from the wider Dalkey community are encouraged to park on the edge of the grounds and approach the hall on foot. If the sports hall is closed for the weekend or late in the evening theses groups will have access to storage and changing facilities under the sheltered section of the promenade/walkway without having the enter the main building itself. From here they are free to use the existing hockey pitches as well as the new astro running track and the upgraded and relocated basketball courts. http://www.donalcolfer.ie/North-King-St http://www.donalcolfer.ie/following/donalcolfer.ie/North-King-St Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:41:12 +0000 Donal Colfer Architects 507651 Donal Colfer Architects <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/507651/ele12.jpg" width="542" height="300" width_o="542" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/29786/507651/ele12_o.jpg" data-mid="2313357" border="0" align="left"/>