Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

Flynn Mews House . Dublin

Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects . photos: © Alice Clancy . + dezeen

Situated in the heart of Dublin, on the site of an existing 1847 Georgian Manor, LOHA was asked to design a single family mews by converting a coach house into livable space and adding an additional 160 sq meters into a garden area.

The local planning council requested that the existing coach house facade be restored and remain in view from the primary manor. LOHA used the council's parameters as the driving force behind the design and primary point to inform design decisions moving away from the facade.

Entering from the street into the forecourt, the facade is highlighted by a passageway that gradually slopes downward. Rather than providing a front door into the coach house, the passageway pulls the guest through this volume and into a lushly landscaped central courtyard. It is in this split level garden that the Georgian facade is first seen, reflected in the glass of the addition. Juxtaposed between the restored Georgian facade and the contemporary floating glass curtain wall, a suspended colored glass and steel bridge connects the two volumes through an Insertion into an existing window of the coach house wall.

The project utilizes a significant amount of sustainable measures achieved through a holistic design approach. Materials include stained concrete with recycled glass content, high performance insulated glass, and high gloss plaster. Solar panels are used specifically for domestic water heating while radiant floors utilize an underground heat pump system that incorporates gray water.


Architect: LOHA (Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects)
Lorcan O’Herlihy, Principal-In-Charge, Donnie Schmidt (PD), Alex Morassut (PM), Po-Wen Shaw