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Ryan W. Kennihan Architects . photos: © Johan Dehlin

The clients were a large family and required a big affordable house with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms – a small hotel. In Ireland, concrete based construction continues to be the most economical by far so the formal and construction strategy for the house evolved around the simple stacking of massive elements – readily available precast concrete and blocks forming an accumulation of stacked volumes. Continue reading Ryan W. Kennihan

Ryan W. Kennihan Architects . photos: © Johan Dehlin

Outside of Dublin’s largely Georgian and Victorian era core lies a near continuous ring of suburban mid-20th century single family houses, densely packed as row houses or ‘semi-detached’ pairs. These neighbourhoods are predominantly constructed very affordably in concrete block, cement plaster and roof tiles. While most of these houses have quite limited exterior spaces, occasionally, by a happy accident of cul-de-sac geometries, a large angular garden might be found. The clients acquired one such secret garden whose wedge shape meets the street at the width of a car while it widens to 23 metres at the rear. The project was to double the size of the small existing house while connecting to the unique site. Continue reading Ryan W. Kennihan

Ryan W. Kennihan Architects . photos: © Shantanu Starick

The character of the extension to the rear garden arises from a study of the typical Dublin ‘backlands’. The Victorian neighbourhoods of Dublin are filled with back lanes and densely packed linear gardens. These spaces are used for everything from manicured gardens to auto repair shops and are therefore filled with a huge variety of structures. These backlands are a warren of buildings showing a full range of styles across the last two centuries; pitched roof architectural stone mews buildings, turn of the century concrete and corrugated sheds, well-proportioned 1940’s temple-like concrete garages, 1990’s off-the-shelf steel sheds. This mix of styles is found across the city hidden behind the public facing front buildings. The formality of these backlands buildings tends to diminish the further they are from the front of the house, from orderly and sometimes self-conscious facades connected to the house to utilitarian and informal conglomerations to the rear. Continue reading Ryan W. Kennihan

Ryan W. Kennihan Architects . photos: © Aisling McCoy

This project is an extension and renovation of a terraced house in an area of Dublin that consists predominantly of Victorian and Edwardian era brick houses. Throughout the neighbourhood one finds beautiful and well-crafted brick details – stepped bricks, coloured bricks, chamfered bricks, etc. – which give the streets their rich character. Even the rear garden side of this terrace is made in a pale Dublin stock brick. Continue reading Ryan W. Kennihan

Ryan W. Kennihan . photos: © Shantanu Starick . + abitare

Connemara is a windswept, roughhewn, and endlessly beautiful landscape. The commonly heard phrase, ‘four seasons in a day’ speaks to the ever present weather that can be both debilitating and invigorating but also creates a perpetually changing and extraordinary display of light and colour each day. Travelling west and leaving behind the town of Clifden, one arrives at the shores of the Atlantic and the distinct feeling of being at the edge of the earth takes hold. ‘Here be Dragons’. Continue reading Ryan W. Kennihan