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Stage: CD - DA

Tools / Skills: AutoCAD, SketchUP, Indesign, Sketching

Time: 2009

• Coordinating design information between Richard Murphy Architects

and RPP Architects in Ireland

• Production of 2d drawings for DA submission and 3d models to be rendered by others

•Assisting Richard Murphy in the design process

•Building is groundbreaking in its program and uses local red brick for its exterior finish

The building brings together three functions never before co-located. These are a consulting facility, a day centre and an eight bedroom short-stay residential section

The plan shows a U shaped design around a private patient orientated courtyard garden. Entrance is in the center, one wing is for consulting for outpatients the other for day patients. Consultants’ rooms are clustered around small walled gardens with all the circulation and waiting areas open to the main garden. The residential section has its own entrance and presence on the site, akin to a gatehouse. It is designed as much as possible to be an ordinary two storey house but with a double height living area around which all the main spaces gravitate.There is deliberately no internal patient access between the two parts of the building. Office accommodation for outreach staff on the first floor of the main building completes the design.