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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

Ryan W. Kennihan architects . photos: © Aisling McCoy

The site for this house contained a ruined farmhouse and barns that had been in the family since the early 1800’s. Its layout was typical of the vernacular farmhouse type with a series of simple pitched roof volumes arranged around several yards that provide shelter from the coastal weather. These buildings and yards accumulate incrementally over generations with new structures added to accommodate new uses. Continue reading Ryan W. Kennihan

Ryan W. Kennihan Architects . photos: © Aisling McCoy

The existing Victorian semi-detached house is an interesting collage of disparate elements, materials and shapes, all unified by a simple timber beam painted white. We repeated this method of composition – collage unified by a simple beam – to the rear of the house to instil a conversation between old and new rather than a simple contrast. Continue reading Ryan W. Kennihan