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Renderings exploring the Public Edge, the Thresholdwhere the Trail-Walkers Lodge meets the Western Greenway.

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G A V A N L E E (00 353) 087 [email protected] Co. Dublin

EDUCATION BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN1986 - 1991DIPLOMA IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK2008 - 2009MASTERS DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN2013 - 2015

EMPLOYMENT* QUAD DESIGN GBR BERLIN, GERMANYProject & Construction Management Sep 1999 - June 2003

COLLENS PROJECT MANAGEMENT (CPM) DUBLIN, IRELANDArchitect Nov 2006 - March 2007

DN SMITH & ASSOCS DUBLIN, IRELANDArchitect March 2007 - July 2007

ASHLING COLEMAN ARCHITECTS (ACHArchitects) DUBLIN, IRELANDArchitect Aug 2007 - Dec 2007

DESIGNHOUSE ITALIA BERLIN, GERMANY / DUBLIN, IRELANDArchitect, Director June 2005 - Aug 2013

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LANGUAGES:EnglishGermanItalian

PORTFOLIO WWW.ISSUU.COM/GAVANLEE

RESOURCES MEMBERSHIPS:INSTITUTE OF PROJECT MANAGERS IRELAND (IPMI)CULTIVATEAMNESTY

CPD:Extensive since 2005

CERTIFICATION:PermacultureAutoCAD 3DAutodesk REVIT

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DIPLOMA IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK2008 - 2009

MASTERS DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN2013 - 2015

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QUAD DESIGN GBR BERLIN, GERMANYProject & Construction Management Sep 1999 - June 2003





SKILLS COMPUTER SOFTWARE:AutoCADAutodesk REVITSketchupRHINOILLUSTRATORPHOTOSHOPINDESIGNMicrosoft Oce



RESOURCES MEMBERSHIPS:INSTITUTE OF PROJECT MANAGERS IRELAND (IPMI)CULTIVATEAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL


CERTIFICATION:Permaculture (Naples, Italy)Autodesk REVIT / AutoCAD 3D

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland. (Thesis Exhibition, 2015)Pfalmine 49, Zurich, Switzerland (Installations, 1998)Galerie Unart, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany (Installation, 1996)

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The Brief called for new structures on the Oliver Bond Street side of the NCAD campus (in Dublins Medieval core) to house an additional archive and research programme. The completed design took as its starting point the the conservation and reuse of the existing granary store on site. The reprogramming of the space began by generating a sequence of vertical platforms from which connecting bridges opened up new routes along the North face of the site.These routes bridged over walkways from the street into the campus grounds, so creating a mesh of interactive zones be-tween public and private realms. Archive and research rooms are housed semi-hermetically along the routes, so reinforcing the concept of an inhabited bridge

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Ryoan-ji Temple garden, Kyoto Currach building, East Wall

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How we might live:East Wall in Dublins Northside inner city is a predominantly working class residential area synonymous with a bygone era of prosperity, and high employment associated with the nearby Docklands. Technological progress, changes in infrastructure, and city planning decisions have resulted in the areas increased marginalization despite its central location.The project How we might live looked at how small changes in the social and architectural fabric might allow the community to adapt and re-imagine itself in the 21st century. The project site was chosen for its location at the intersection of one of the routes into the area with a section of East Walls boundary edge. The design sprung from the locating of a small semi-enclosed public space at that point, which would provide a sense of place, and allow that point at the intersection of route and edge to be redefined as a social hub or gateway into the community. Semi-public decks at different levels together with workshops along the street front facilitates interconnectivity and overlap between micro and macro communities. The scheme brought together a mix of live-work units, family-sized townhouses, and adaptive homes for the aged in order to create and provide a social and residential hub which would thrive in the 21st century.

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The Exquisite Corpse - Examining Suburbia:A Footballing Centre of Excellence in Sallynoggin, Co. Dublin

The project set out to examine the suburban condition in Dublin from a social, physical, cultural and economic context.It was a study too of the hidden orders and rules which layered, form the intricate mechanics of suburban life. The projecttook the form of a sequence of short design projects or projections, each rooted within the concept of suburb. The study programme culminated in the design of a piece of architecture or infrastructure which built on the existing community. The project illustrated takes as its brief a new base for St. Josephs Football Club, which would provide focus to the area, while redening the boundary edge as a permeable pathway.

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Section through the Communal Hubof the Trail-Walkers Lodge showing the revised layout of the sleeping platforms.

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The Connecting Landscape

No clear link to the Western Greenway.

There are magnicent views of the landscapeand the sea - and they are not visible.

one aspect of the history of walking is the history of thinking made concrete,for the motions of the mind cannot be traced, but those of the feet can. Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust

...with the low rocky shore at ones feet, and get ones bearings.Behind and to the left is level ground of sandy elds, and dunes in the distance. To the right the land rises in stony slopes to the ruins of an ancient watchtower on the skyline..Tim Robinson, Folding Landscapes

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8: Derrada loop Category: Walking/Hiking TrailsType: National Loop WalkLength: 7 kmAscent: 40m Grade: ModerateTime: 2-3hrs

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6: Bothy loop Category: Walking/Hiking TrailsType: National Loop WalkLength: 6.00 km Ascent: 80mGrade: EasyTime: 1hr 30min

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The image opposite is of Wrights drawing of a classsic holy well ,Lady Well, or Louthiana, from near Dundalk, Co. Louth.The image is arguably the earliest detailed record of a Holy Well,which is dated to sometime around the 12th cen.Religious traditions associated with water have a long history inIreland, dating back to the late bronze age (1200-600 BC), ifnot before.A Holy Well can simply be dened as a location where water is usedas the focal point of supernatural divination, cure or devotion, on a regular basis.I rst came across the image in Niall McCullough and ValerieMulvins book, A Lost Tradition- The Nature of Architecture in Ireland,a text which provided valuable reference material throughout the early phases of the design.The image I kept throughout the Project as a touchstone, as it seemed to instill in it ideas of protection, rootedness, and wonder;all themes which I hoped might inform the design of the Hub and Refuges.

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A Trail-Walkers Lodge and Wilderness RefugesMulranny and Ballycroy National Park Co Mayo

Summer

A million rays then danced on every crag, down in the crevices among the crags, where wind never came, and where the sun was only reected by slanting dim shadows, the maidenhairferns grew from the black earth.... the sweet langorous odour of summer permeated everyliving thing... a bed of ower-scented moonlight on which one might irt delectably withalternative futures...

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Rain fell each day drowning summer, water gushed from crevices in the clis... as thoughautumn were washing...

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In winter all things die... sea roared in mad delight, wrecking everything generated in spring,owered in summer and bore fruit in autumn... the rain carried on the wind fell in great blackdrops that pattered on the crags and rose again in a blue mist... there was no moon, hidden by the torn clouds...

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Exhausted sea writhed in the death agony of its winter madness, the place washed by the rain and torn by the wind cracked in every pore noiselessly as it began to move, wind beatthe earth with thin steel rods, sea rolled banks of yellow and brown and black seaweed to thebeaches to frtilize the earth... through rain and driven sleet the people worked, even the greylimestone crags seemed to move as the sun sucked the dew from their backs.

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The Project began as a series of sheltering lookout towers along the Mulrannycoastline connected by a togher. The scheme was to be stitched together into the existing Western Greenway, creating further layers of experience to complementthe trail walk as it winds its way between the mountains and the bay.The idea was to tie this loose piece of beaded string to the town via a scenic descentinto the town centre. This nal piece of the route where it descended to the towns promenade was to incorporate heaps of local stone through which the nal piece ofthe route was to be navigated, and which would reect the forms of the drumlinsvisible below in Clew Bay.These ideas were to be reformulated during the second phase of the project.The region to the north of Mulranny, recently consolidated into a national Park, is oneof Irelands last real wildernesses. A truly primal landscape, where the ancient Quaternary architecture of the Nephin Beg mountain range cups vast tracts of forest,and blanket bog, which at 4000 years old is in its relative infancy and still forming.This is a desolate place without roads or dwelling, described by the Irish NaturalistRobert Lloyd Praeger in his 1937 book, The Way that I Went, as ...the very lonliest placein this country.In recent years trail walking has become a popular activity on trails reactivated in the National Park. The most formidable of these routes at 28km- the Bangor Trail- has itsfoundation in local history as a livestock drover trail through the peaty bogland windingits way between Newport and Bangor.It is here along these ancient routes that I propose refuges- modern day bothys- for the walkers.The planting of man-made structures in the wilderness park is a contentious one, withvoices both for and against making themselves heard in trail-walkers magazines and journals.My proposal then is for refuges- places of refuge- to be part of the landscape itself.These will be heaps of stone melting into the landscape. With the imprinting of seasons andweather they will be as natural in time as drumlins, mountain top markers or ancient places of repose.My brief will be spartan and based on simple needs:Four walls, a re, a door, a window or two, a seat, a place to write, a drying place,lengths of climbing rope and caribiners, medicines, a bench outdoors, a sheltering wall,a composting loo, a store for turf, a box of matches, a water purier, some foodstus in a store,a matress, a compass, a Dietz lamp, a roof, a platform in the air...It will be a butress against the prevailing wind. It will provide shelter.It will gather drinking water.It will be made of local stone.

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Verzasca trail - continuation of Route and expansion of green beltSite response 1Creation of green corridorto connect Tenero rail stationwith existing green belt,and Verzasca walkers trail.

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Locarno Film Festival study


Founded in 1946 in the same year as the Cannes Film Festival, the Locarno Film Festival takes place every year over the course of two weeks in August. The Festival casts itself as the world centre for auteur cinema, and remains associated with the lms of European New Wave. Locarno can be read as a special place then in terms of World cinema. Its location and scale give it a sense of otherness.

While a relatively small festival in comparison with those of cannes and Berlin, it still attracts a large non-indigenous crowd during the Festival period. This has the implication that the population of Locarno expands from 60,000 (pop. Locarno and its immediate hinterland) to 160,000. Amongst this number are around 4000 from the lm industry and media.Despite this, and the importance of the festival to Locarno, there are no purpose-built facilities for the events which take place. Instead, existing buildings and civic infrastructure are adapted and repurposed. The Piazza Grande in Locarno town centre is co-opted as as an outdoor cinema theatre and the main open air screenings take place there. With one of the largest open-air screens in the world xed to a structure de-signed by Michele Arnaboldi, and with seating room for 8000 spectators, Piazza Grande can be read as Locarnos living room for the duration of the Film Festival.Less successfully however, some of the smaller screenings take place in rooms in buildings adapted for the Festival. As can be seen from the map all of the events associated with the Film Festival take place within a small area at the town centre.The establishment of a second hub on the lake-shore in Tenero would have the eect of drawing in the entire town to the festival, while reinforc-ing the town edge.This second hub to be sited on the lakeshore at Tenero is to the focus of my Thesis Design.

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Border of Horticultural plain and SettlementCity of Locarno

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Boundaries are places where energy is potentially at its greatest. Shelly McNamara, Faculty of Architecture Thesis Group Review, Mendrisio (discussing boundary conditions at Locarno)

Staggered openings in Amphitheatre drum / external envelope experienced as a sequence of moments, similar to a framing montage in lm.

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Public Space connecting the mountains to the lake via the Verzasca river.Route through the park is dened by two volumes which create a street,which itself is a void carved into the landscape. Distilling ideas of framing,route and arrival from the ancient Greek settlement at Delphi, the routeis designed to heighten the moment of arrival at the lake and amphitheatre/ arena. The journey is made up of a series of ascents and descents, before ascending nally to the arena which frames views toward the mountainsSouth of Lake Maggiore.A ritual pathway carved through a long mound of burnt timber or volcanic stone denes the nal stage of the route.The two volumes- housing a lm museum/archive, and lm productionfacilities are envisaged as voids sitting on the landscape, with the programmatic elements taking place below ground level. Ascending from the lm museum a second smaller open air theatre space is revealed which frames views toward the mountains to the North of the lake.

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Reimagining route through Public space in Venice as composed purely of public squaresand bridges (campi e ponti designating primary route to indigenous venetians), the street (calle) becomes a composite of both. The buildings give form to the street are pushed back, releasing and redening public space. The buildings become stage-sets, curtains, and framing devices, structures for diagonal and vertical circulation, structures concealing voids, structures revealing the potential for use and programme.

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Livio Vacchini, Architecture Studio, LocarnoTwo long parallel-piped volumes are stacked above the ground plane which is freed up so that the towns civic space is allowed to ow through the undercroft of the building. On the upper oor the studio archive is housed in a pre-stressed concrete bridge structure, which oats free of the middle oor, which is supported separately on slender piloti rising up fromthe ground plane below. 39

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Baserga Mozetti, Gymnasium, ChiassoThe building could be read as a response to how the building and ground planes meet and are yet separate entities, and the design explores that duality. The plint at the base reacts to the ground topography. The main structure of the gymnasium seems to oat above the raised pediment - supported only on four v-shaped concrete bearings, each located axially oneach of the four elevations. The detached volume allows daylight to enter the double height space which has been carved into the groung topography. [image shows collaged model]. 37

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Torquing ellipses twice as tall as visitors places them inside a shellwhose twist is activated by their motion.

Borromini, San Carlo allo Quattro Fontane:Photo of dome, oor plan, and drawingsdescribing evolution of ellipse.

Mario Botta, 1:1 Section model of San Carlo allo Quattro Fontane, on Lake Lugano.A study of solid and void in the work of Borromini (on a oatingplatform on the lake close to thearchitects place of birth)

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Excavated ground to create new channel for Verzasca river as it meets the lakeshore. The new branch of the river evokes the form of the natural delta.

Island to be planted with citrus groves in keeping with the regions mediterranean micro-climate.The ground descends from low elevated earten plateaus to seating admist the groves. It is an area of refuge and a variant on public space which harnesses the boundary conditions to create a zone for reflection. A place to view the surrounding landscape, to watch the flow of the river, to picnic. or to wander through

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Proposed bridge connects Amphitheatre hub to elevated ground at limit of seasonal flooding high water mark

Amphitheatre hub elevated 5.7m above median lake water level

The bridge rises zig-zagging across the branch of the river.Elevation and orientation in a sequence of change, such that the views across the landscape evoke multiple horizons. This is in response to Mielis definition of the swiss landscape as one where the territory isdetached from the horizon. The bridge sequence prepares the visitorfor the shifting perspectives and captured horizons while circumnavigatingthrough the ellipses which form the internal envelopes to the Amphitheatre. The outer drum frames the mountains and is the intermediatoryskin between the visitor and the landscape.

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But...how can man withdraw from the elds? Where will he go, since the earth is one huge unbounded eld?Quite simple; he will mark o a portion of this eld by means of walls, which set up an enclosed nite spaceover against amorphous, limitless space.. .So the urbs and polis starts by being an empty space... and all therest is just a means of xing that empty space, of limiting its outlines...the Square...this lesser rebellious eldwhich secedes from the limitless one, and keeps to itself, is a space sui generis of the most novel kind in whichman frees himself from the community of the plant and the animal...and creates an enclosure which is purelyhuman, a civil space.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset as quoted in Colin Rowe's 'Collage City' touches on themes which dene the subjectof my Thesis in architecture. ie. the nature of made landscape, and its relationship to the natural landscape.I would rene this further, and dene the core of my research as the constructed street, and howpotentially it can be reimagined as evolving or devolving into the concept of bridge or bridgesconnecting elds of public space.My research grew out of a conversation in Venice, about that city, and how it works. It is perceived andunderstood by its indigenous populace as a city of bridges connecting places. The concept of street is ofsecondary importance, and hardly referred to in instructions as to how the city is to be navigated. Ifstreets have a role, it is in their guise as canals. The connection of canal, bridge, and public square (campo,eld) is the place of maximum intensity, the zone of greatest social, commercial, and cultural investment.It is here where light illuminates, and sound intensies. It is in this place where the most important sociallife is seen to take place. As Beatriz Colomina described in her essay on the architecture of Adolf Loos, theplace where prospect and refuge intersect and overlap are the most interesting and layered of all places.A physical journey is by denition a journey across a landscape. Often that journey is played out on amade landscape- an urban topography of built structures. There the natural landscape is hidden, existingonly as a base layer on the urban palimpsest. Public parks and squares open up to evoke memory ofmeadows, elds, and more primal landscape. The street connects all experience, and is a labyrinth ofplace and happenings. The street conditions experience- it leads the visitor. It is the only route in town.Venice is dierent. It asks questions of what we mean by the natural and made landscape. It corrals thenatural currents of the lagoon to recongure them as routes and circulation systems. Its canals are itsroads. So its roads are water- a material far less stable than rock. But surely does not water convey theidea of circulation and free movement far better than rock or its substrates? It is this concept of circulation untramelled by the strict rules of the forces of tectonics which fascinatesme. Can a new evaluation of the concept of route redene our understanding of the built environment?And if so, would the city be reimagined in its image? Another city, a dierent one. Fluid and free. Or is thebridge the key? Traversing nature. The bridge as the connector linking public space to public space. Thestreet as bridge. The bridge as a place for the meeting of ideas. The bridge as a new element freed ofmeaning, and ready to be reimagined.

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Begin with a seat and an elliptic route from rock to water to that seat.Create multiple horizons on the way and capture mountains.The structure is not carved by the landscape but by man. There is a mute acknowledgement between both.In reality the structure is there to carve light .It is suspended over water which carves rock, and was once crystalized as ice.The rivers (Maggia and Verzasca) are natural connections, transporting precipitation from the moun-tains to the lake. Lake Maggiore often floods seasonally. The high water table can be as much as 4.5m. Any structure built on the lake shore must adapt to it.

My work from the interim phase of the Thesis on, has focused on the 'Arena' as context for theinterplay of the indices which were the initial set parameters for my research. Initially I had set out to examine the concepts of 'street' , and route, as formulations and variations on the concepts of 'bridge' and public space. To this end the primary explorations in the project involved a transposed version of what I imagined the 'street' to be, with its form expanded to harness the attributes of both concepts of 'bridge' as well as public space. Taken further the 'street' folds along its route, at its edges, to allow for the reimagining of the structures which define its boundaries.This initial concept had as its programme a series of public rooms: (A large amphitheatre, a small amphitheatre (both to be activated during the Locarno Film Festival, as well as for interim performances and screenings); a film museum/archive; a large public space, with two smaller public spaces connecting it with the amphithetares at the riverside and lakeshore. A second structure, parallel to the film museum, was to house film production facilities which could expand into the main public space. This principal public space, which was to function as a type of nexus, connecting the final part of the route to the river and lake, was itself the culmination of a route which connected ultimately the mountains to the North of Tenero to Lake Maggiore at that point where the river Verzasca meets the lake.The concepts of 'solid' and void' - which are so prevalent in the work of contemporary Ticinese architects, and seem to devolve from the overpowering connection to the landscape; with its great natural spaces de-fined like huge empty cups by the towering mountain range- were to be a stuctural/ topographical genera-tor for my work. This connection between solid and void is apparent too in the great infrastructure works so synonymous with the region- which have carved new routes which have opened up new territories within it.

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Folding Landscape: At what point in its extrusion does a street become a piazza or campo? How do its edges fold? What are the new boundary condi-tions? At what point does the platform begin and the field end?

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Flavian Amphitheatre, Pozzuoli, Naples: Framing sequence


Following my visit to the Flavian Amphitheatre in Pozzuoli, Naples, I aimed to capture the framing effect (which on walking through it reveals a displaced parallax which heightens the sense of movement)of the double ellipse in plan which forms the subterranean structure to the amphitheatre.

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I had looked at the Basserga-Mozetti double gymnasium project in Chiasso. The relationship between solid and void, and their relationship to public space in the project is well handled,and the suspension of the large pre-stressed concrete beams which define the space between the volumetric void and the transparent space which floats above it, creates a connection- a visual one- between the public space and the mountain range/the Natural landscape beyond.

In this way there were two ways of formulating connection to the surrounding landscape which I was exploring. One was a connection which was made by carving the landscape- creating voids into it to house the programmatic elements. This process of mimesis with the landscape- in a sense 'cupping' the objects (the walls and other forms which define space for inhabitation)- created a means of allowing the natural landscape to flow through those parts of the built structures which were above ground level.The second way of formulating the connection was that imagined in the model for the initial concept, as described above. There the voids remain, but the envelopes of the built structures housing the various parts of the programme are solid. More than this, the relationship between height and depth is such that the slenderness ratio is excep-tional. In this way they can seem to take the form of the folded street, or theatrical set.The route is framed to create a series of events- glimpses of the lake from varying altitudes and perspectives along the route- which culminate in the arrival at the main amphitheatre on the lake-shore. The final part of the route was to be defined along a 'corridor' of heaped timber- charred silver and black. Here I thought of a ritual path, the last part of the sequence from the Temple to the Amphi-theatre at Delphi, and the cladding of the small chapel of St. Benedict at Sumtvig, by Peter Zumthor.

As the Thesis develops, I have decided to refocus my ideas into generating one space- an Amphi-theatre or Arena - which would allow me to unlock the various strands of enquiry and reveal the essential tenet of my Thesis work.

The principal aim, in terms of context, remains the connection between the mountains (Cenere) and the lake (Maggiore)., and how the inhabitants of Locarno interact in the urban environment while revealing that sense of connectivity. My Thesis brief therefore is one of place and connection. It should re-reveal the natural environment to the town's inhabitants. Provide a new way of seeing, and experiencing context. The project site's context- its location at a series of boundaries/borders- provides a means of examining the site condition. The principal boundary conditions are those of: rock /water; city/lake; Mountain/valley; urban landscape/natural landscape; town/hinterland.

During the Thesis diploma review in Mendrisio, Shelly McNamara remarked on the importance of this boundary/border condition as a ''place where things happen''.In Nature it is the place where differing, diverse conditions, materials or environments can potentially interact and evolve new environments.

Boundaries can be places where things interact because they come into contact and can interfere with each other.

Marcel Mieli, Lovely Swiss Countryside- Myth and Reality in the Urban Topography,from Landscape Architecture in Mutation- Essays on the Urban Landscape, GTA Verlag, Zurich

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The Masterplan for Castello del Matese, as coordinated by DHI (myself and two Italian architects), was developed through the preliminary phases as an Urban Pilot Project at the Neighbourhood level. It was envisaged that the Project be used as a template for urban development as part of an Integrated, Sustainable Rural-Development Plan in the region.With specific emphasis on Localization, Integrating contemporary Technologies with the Traditional Artisan skill-base, and Sustainable Planning, it was posited that the model for Castello del Matese would make a valuable contribution to future Regional Planning initiatives.

Project: Master plan for Castello del Matese, Campania, It. (2010)Client: Town CouncilBudget: 1M

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As Architect with ACH Architects, I took the lead role in managing the final phases of the design of the 7500 m2 multi-residential schemeon the Lamb Doyle site in South County Dublin. The design was driven with reference to the geographical and cultural importance of the site. The sites vantage point made possible the framing of views from the apartments over Dublin Bay and the surrounding mountains.

Project: Mixed-Use Multi-Residential development, Sandyford, County Dublin, Irl. (2007)Client: Lamb DoylesBudget: 14.5M

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The design, over two phases, is in response to the clients requirement for more space to accomodate the needs of a growing family.The first phase was an intervention in the existing terraced house- creating a study space in what was formerly a garage. The second phase sees the expansion of the livingroom, and the design of a new bedroom and auxillary study space on the first floor overlookingthe garden. The restrictions imposed by the planning regulations, as well as the compact nature of the site, led to a split level design which minimizes impact on the garden area, while at the same time maximizing daylighting. The organization of the interior spaces is based on the concept of raumplan and promotes complexity with reference to connectivity within the house.

Project: House Extension, Glasthule, Dublin, Irl. (2015)Client: Paul KellyBudget: 85k

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The one-bedroom apartment is located on the seafront in Dun Laoghaire, and is divided between the ground floor and basement of a large late 19 c. townhouse. Floor to ceiling height sash windows draw daylighting into the rooms which are orientated with a North-Easterly aspect over Dublin Bay. The fit-out set out to harmonize the various spaces in the apartment through adapting a minimal tem-plate of high-quality materials, which allow the various rooms to flow and connect into one another. Storage systems were designed into the spaces to alleviate clutter, and to provide a sculptural quality to the wall surfaces.

Project: Apartment refurbishment, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Irl. (2010)Client: Alyson LeeBudget: 25k

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Whilst Dun Laoghaire harbour is thriving both culturally and economically given its unique amenity and location, its hinterland at its northern edge still remains under-utilized and somewhat delapidated. This neglect can be read as a function of its boundary condition, which is compounded by its edgeland site and lack of direct vehicular access. Urban Drift envisages opening up the area through creating a pop-up hub for young designers, foodies, wake-boarders and wind-surfers.Development costs are minimized through the assembly of a cluster of shipping containers on the site, which are massed so as to provide first floor decking and views over the harbour. Bright colours and Super Graphics bring vivacity and a sense of place to the scheme. Project costs are minimized through collective responsibility of stakeholders for fit-outs and maintenance.

Project: URBAN DRIFT (2011)Client: Dun Laoghaire Harbour CompanyBudget: 700k

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HavServe are a non-profit N.G.O. whose work is focused on redeveloping the social and cultural infrastructure in Haiti which was devastated as a result of the 2010 earthquake. I volunteered to work for the N.G.O. on a pro-bono basis in order to bring about the design of a school, education centre, and health clinic which together would serve the large population in the area around Lebrun in Northern Haiti. The work involved extensive research into disaster-relief building design and procurement, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with both local artisans and design-based N.G.O.s such as Architecture for Humanity. I led the design team which consisted of myself and two graduate argentinian architects.

Project: School, Educational Centre and Health Clinic, Lebrun, Haiti. (2012-14)Client: Town CouncilBudget: $3.2M

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The project entailed the extensive remodelling of a large one-bedroom apartment in Berlin. The client required that the apartment could be modified to house guests temporarily staying in the city. A further requirement was the sound-proofing of all the rooms. This was principally facilitated through the construction of a suspended acoustic ceiling which span throughout the apartment. The logistics of the location of the apartment meant that all structural steel beams had to be assembled and welded in-situ. Specialist light fixtures were bespoke and supplied by Archimedes.

Project: Apartment fit-out, Laubacherstrasse, Steglitz, Berlin, D. (2011)Client: Angela CipolloneBudget: 85k

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The project is composed of twelve large dual aspect apartments with semi-basement parking on a .25Ha site in South County Dublin.Key to the project was the integration of the building onto the site, and the sense of continuity in the area. All of the specimen trees on the site were retained- some of which were 200 years old- which provided screening along the road front. Additional planting allowed the creation of a sequence of secret gardens around the dwellings. The unique orange sandstone cladding from the house which originally occupied the site was recycled and reused as cladding on the cylindrical atrium space to the new building.

Project: Apartment development, Knocklyon, Dublin, Irl. (2006)Client: Thomas and Elizabeth LeeBudget: 2.4M

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Designed to meet A-rated energy standards, this timber-frame house was designed as a second home on the site of the original Family home. Large square-shaped rooflights draw daylight into a dual-height central atrium, which functions as the hub of the house.

Project: House in Garden, Blackrock, Dublin, Irl. (2008)Client: -Budget: 500k

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A team of architects collaborated to design and build a restaurant which provided both a showcase for their work, as well as a forum for meeting new clients. Quad architects office was housed in the space next to the restaurant. As Construction Manager, I managed the fit-out of the premises, while collaborating in the detail design. Where possible all work was made and assembled by the team, using external contactors only for the glazing elevation with its all brass detailing; and the casting of the concrete bar which was cast in one section. Much of the materials used were found materials. This factor together with the reduced labour costs, contributed to the economic cost of the project.

Project: Restaurant, Chausseestrasse 110 , Mitte, Berlin, D. (1999)Client: Quad ArchitectsBudget: 110k

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