St. Patricks Place Development, Cork
Located on a prominently elevated terrace to the north side of Cork City, in an Architectural Conservation Area, St.Patrick’s Place is a mixed use type development comprising of a new build commercial / retail / office block and a residential development within an existing adjacent building. The new build is a 5 storey building consisting of a 2 storey basement carpark, lower and ground retail floors, and overhead office and penthouse apartments. The residential development consists of the refurbishment of an existing building including the retention of the front protected façade.
Awards
Best Sustainable Building
Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland
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Client
Grangefield Developments
Location
Cork, Ireland
Status
In Use
Area
2937
Expertise
This mixed use development presents a confident modern design, sitting in harmony with surrounding heritage, and avoiding a pastiche solution commonly adopted in such a context.
With careful selection of materials, crafted detailing, and sympathetic proportion, it presents a well considered facade to both Wellington Road and the city wide context to the south.
Providing quality showroom, office and living accommodation, it is designed with the latest model solutions in sustainability, and is a welcome addition to this historic part of Cork City.
Built to the edge of a cliff face, overlooking McCurtain Street below, the full site coverage of the design demanded significant innovation in construction techniques. Scott Tallon Walker worked at an early stage with VMRA to ensure an innovative and sensible approach to sustainable design was incorporated into the project. The design team were successful in achieving considerable grant aiding from Sustainable Energy Ireland under their Model Solutions programme.
Some of the model solutions developed for the building included low energy lighting, a passive wind driven turbine ventilation system, exposed concrete ceilings as heat sinks, automated and manual tempered air intake, centralised solar panels providing hot water, centralised heating system shared by both office and residential, shared task fan ventilation for apartments.
In keeping with the local tradition of adopting a mix of cork white limestone and red sandstone on prominent buildings, materials were carefully selected to include a flamed finish granite to match the cork white limestone and a red sandstone to harmonise with adjacent brick façades and red limestone walls for the office building. The new development at St. Patrick’s Place, Cork was shortlisted for the 2009/2010 Green Awards in the Sustainable Building category.
