There was an existing planning permission for a tradition Mews house on this site before we were appointed. We completely redesigned the house before we started on site. The challenge was to redesign the Mews house from the inside out without amending the planning application due to time constraints.Ā 

Ā© Aisling McCoy

Architects: DUA

Location: 4 Cranmer Ln, Dublin 4, D04 Y1X8, Ireland

Area: 102.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Aisling McCoy

Design Team: Phase 1 - Darragh Breathnach, Pablo Bolinches, Daria Leikine. Phase 2- Darragh Breathnach, Ciaran Molomby

Animations: DUA (Darragh Breathnach) / Aisling McCoy

Ā© Aisling McCoy
From the architect. There was an existing planning permission for a tradition Mews house on this site before we were appointed. We completely redesigned the house before we started on site. The challenge was to redesign the Mews house from the inside out without amending the planning application due to time constraints.Ā 

Ā© Aisling McCoy

This meant we could not modify the exterior proportions. The original layout allowed for the bedrooms upstairs and kitchen living /dining downstairs. We flipped this to maximise daylight to the living spaces. Inside we used a simple pallet of materials, Reclaimed Dolphins Barn Brick, concrete, Chilean Pine plywood, Concrete & plasterboard. By using subtle level changes we defined different zones withi...