The site for this house is located on the edge of Clifden, a small town in the far West of Ireland. Despite its proximity to the centre of town, its location on the single high point in a floodplain along the Owenglin River means that the house will always sit as a singular object in the landscape. Regardless of the future development of the surrounding town, it will always remain a kind of isolated garden ‘folly’. Continue reading Ryan W. Kennihan
Ryan W. Kennihan Architects . photos: © Alice Clancy . + divisare
The building is an extension and renovation of a detached townhouse on Abbey Street in
Roscommon town. It provides counseling rooms and a large meeting hall for the family counseling centre and charitable organization called Vita House and its broader community. Continue reading Ryan Kennihan
Ryan W. Kennihan . photos: © Aisling McCoy
While many extensions to the typical ‘two up two down’ house create an aesthetic division between old and new, we wanted to blur the lines between these conditions. Our approach was surgical. Through a series of cuts and openings in the existing, visual connections are created from the street to the new extension to the garden beyond. The existing rear room was stripped of its plaster to expose its brick construction, relating it to the new brick extension. The shared structuring material of concrete links old and new together spatially and materially. The result of these blending interventions is a series of characterful and livable rooms that are distinct but cleverly interlinked. Continue reading Ryan W. Kennihan
