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Transformation of the Site Ballymun was Ireland’s largest high-rise estate and is the largest regeneration programme in the country. Seven fifteen-storey tower blocks, nineteen eight-storey blocks and ten four-storey blocks of flats are being demolished. They are being replaced with approx 5,000 new homes and enhanced community, cultural and commercial facilities. The regeneration programme strategically targets the physical social and economic regeneration of the area and is guided by the Masterplan published by Ballymun Regeneration Limited in 1998. Alongside re-housing of existing residents, key objectives and challenges are to introduce greater tenure diversity and social mix, to increase the residential density to a more sustainable level and to foster full integration of the town with surrounding communities. Overall the project is approx 70% complete City Strategy The city of Dublin is the Urban Centre for the greater Dublin Metropolitan Region. The study site, Ballymun is approx 6 km north east of the city centre. It is one of 8 prime urban centres identified by the 2005 Dublin City Development plan as part of a wider strategy that proposes to consolidate the city region and to expand and develop key suburban centres. The strategy aims to create sustainable self-contained suburban centres that will enhance the quality of life and experience of the city region for all inhabitants. A holistic approach is proposed including aspirations around the following key elements: physical social cultural economic movement and environment. Diversity of expression tenure and occupation is favoured within a coherent framework for development.
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boilerhouse site, ballymun
Site definition The site for the project comprises .44ha and is located to the east of Main Street just north of the Town Centre Plaza. The district heating boiler house, its chimney and a water reservoir currently occupy the site. The plant originally served the needs of the entire estate in relation to space heating and hot and cold water. Due to the inflexibility of the specification and controls the system cannot be adapted for reuse to serve its original function. The goal is to transform the site in a sustainable manner that acknowledges the significance of the original use and location. A mixed commercial residential development has been completed to the south of the site. A large town centre development to the west is at planning stage. Feasibility studies for the sites to the north and east are currently underway
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tado ando garden of fine arts, expo 90, osaka
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Urban Mobility The new town centre of Ballymun is located on one of the main arteries feeding the city centre. The Metro North project, which will link the city centre to the Airport, will run underground through Ballymun. The master-plan for the new town of Ballymun proposes to channel commuters towards the city in a sustainable manner while at the same time retaining as many residents as possible on site with local employment opportunities and a wide range of facilities.
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New Social Life One of the key challenges of the regeneration project is to attract newcomers to live in the area in order to promote greater diversity of tenure and social mix. A large number of social and cultural projects and strategies have been developed in Ballymun to help realize this aspiration. The Boilerhouse redevelopment is one such project. Commissioning and installing works of art has helpe to launch a revitalised Ballymun to a wider public and contributed to shift in the perception of the area from being disadvantaged to that of a vibr ant developing community. The project will consolidate and build on this success and to continue to develop the synergy with the Axis Arts Centre - the theatre and community building opened to the public in 2001.
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New Sustainable Environment To be sustainable an urban centre must embrace and fulfil the needs of its citizens in relation to physical social and economic parameters. It should embrace cultural difference and diversity in a meaningful way. It should fully engage with the environment and balance the intake and expenditure of energy in a manner appropriate to the setting. Finally to be truly sustainable a city must be capable of continuously reinventing itself and so adapt more easily to its changing needs. All of the above aspirations are encapsulated in the vision for Ballymun.
chimney/beacon generates the urban form along its axes
tado ando childrens museum, himeji
stripped back building reveals columnade creates an urban link on the site
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The Boilerhouse Gallery brief was to create a new venue which would showcase exciting and vibrant contemporary art in both a gallery format and an external exhibition space which would be fully accessible to the public.
The Boilerhouse Studios was a project which would link with but run independently of the adjacent gallery. The live/work studios would accommodate a variety of local artists with differing nee ds within an urban scheme with rare access to a gallery. The accommodation consists of 2 no. accessible ground floor live/work studios, 2 no. 1 bed live/work studios, 2 no. 2 bed live/work studios, 4 non-residential studios, and an associated workshop and gallery space accessible to all users.
The aim of the project is to consolidate the establishment of Ballymun as a real resource for the arts in Ireland and a must see destination on the national arts circuit. In tandem with this idea was the creation of local employment in a thriving arts environment. as well as improving the social fabric of the regeneration area as a whole. The design strategy focused on the iconic nature of the existing infrastructure on the site, in particular, the chimney. This became the focal point for my urban study. The chimney acting as a beacon forms the axes by which the sites uses are informed. The chimney becomes the main generator for movement both internally and externally. Movement internally passes through the chimney maintaining its function. The existing boiler house fabric is stripped back to the structure to reveal a haunting colonnade which serves as a memory of the past and retains a function as an external exhibition space. The selection of f inishes were chosen to echo the former industrial nature of the site (concrete) whilst keeping with tying with the theme of regeneration (sustainable timber cladding)
aldo rossi, borgoriccio town hall
The siting of the buildings is driven by the existing chimney and colonnade features on the site as well as a desire to create previously abs ent urban edges along the roads at the site boundaries. The axis created by the chimney links the residential live/work studios with the gallery whilst the colonnade provides a link between gallery, external exhibition, and workshop/ non-residential studios and gallery creating a cohesive urban unit. The project began as a wish to create a modular housing scheme based on an industrial container typology. The idea of the container forms the basis for the external finish to the public elevations. The internal courtyard will be finished in timber, a more tactile rather than industrial approach. henri labrouste, biblioteque national de frane
The scheme is designed with sustainability in mind. It tries to take advantage of natural light for studio spaces as well as direct sun light to maximise the potential of triple skin glazing and solar collection devices. The green roof and rain water harvesting attempt to minimise the impact of storm water on existing services as well recycle this for non potable uses.
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1. Main Entrance 2. Gallery 1 3. Foyer 4. Dis wc 5. Male wc 6. Female wc 7. Gallery 2 8. External sculpture garden 9. Reed bed system 10. Irrigation pond 11. Museum service yard 12. Museum archive 13. Museum staff offices 14. Gallery 3 15. Private stairwell linking staff to basement 12
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environment al st udy environmental strategy natural lighting throughout ground source heat pump under rear service yard temperature controlled high level venting in gallery spaces 1
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1. Triple Glazed alluminium framed continuous light box fixed to insulated upstand on mild steel PFC 2. Zinc standing seam roof finish on galv steel profiler fixed to profiled internal acoustic liner sheet 3. Castilated steel structural beam with intermdeiate tie rod support 4. Sun light deflector 5. Insulated alluminium gutter with ppc alluminium cover flashing profile 6. Structural steel column 7. Retained structural steel column (from demolished boiler house) 8. Glass fin ‘bris soleil’ 9. Triple skin glazing with thermally broken alluminium frames 10. Glass balustrade with stainless steel handrail affixed to fascia of f loor below 11. Demountable display partition 12. Profiled metal floor with conc cover. Soffit exposed.
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2. Triple skin glazing with thermally broken alluminium frames 3. Structural steel frame 4. Limecrete ground floor slab 5. Timber louvres 6. Inverted steel truss 7. Retained structural steel column (from demolished boiler house)
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environmental strategy south facing triple glazing. north facing studio spaces air to heat exchangers prevent energy loss by recycling air green roof retains water which is evaporated. additional overflow to rain water harvesting tank for re-use in non-potable applications throughout the units waster water filtered through horizontal flow reed bed system to irrigation pond for distribution to landscaping
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