Skerries Renovation & Extension

Existing Building –Single storey traditional style semi detached cottage.

Extension is  greater than 40 sq.m  which  required Planning Permission.

Design solution by Ian Black was to separate the existing cottage & new extension so that each had a separate identity. The two buildings were connected using a glazed  link  set up on the  circulation axis from front door & continued through the extension as a glass roofed atrium . Courtyard spaces were created each side of the link, which allowed natural light into bedrooms in the new extension in addition to sunlight into the existing cottage .

The  plan form of  the new extension was ‘fish’ shaped in reference to the location . The  curved ‘head’ contains  the open plan  kitchen/dining/family area, the mouth of the ‘fish’ is  the  south facing faceted glass screen  which opens out to patio & south facing garden. The ‘tail’ is the existing cottage , comprises a new living room , and the ‘ spine ‘ is the circulation route  from glazed link to atrium  connecting the head with the tail , new with old.

The palette of materials is stone , slate & hardwood windows in existing cottage , and white render, hardwood windows & zinc roofing to extension.