The Bridge
Apartments, Shopping Centre and Transport hub
David O’ Brien
0864052695 dave.obrien@live.com
Proposed Site Plan
1/2000
Typology Study Industrial Residential Civic
The site present an unused pocket of green land adjacent to both a train line and a canal, situated to the south of Dublin Industrial Estate and North of Cabra. The siteas it currently exists forms a barrier between the area to the south and the canal, and divides the Industrial Estate from Broombridge Business Centre, which is an extension of the Estate south of the canal. With the Luas Line BXD’s Maintenance facilities proposed to be housed here, my initial reaction was to attempt to integrate the Luas, the Businesses present, the community and the canal through the creation of a transport hub, the introduction of retail to the site and the inhabitation of the site by residents, which would also help to blur the line between the Business Centre and the adjacent neighbourhood,
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The site has astrongly defined ‘barrier’ condition with no povision of retail for the Business Park Initial sketch indicating intention to bridge canal and densify the site
Initial design
The concept began as a plinth raised above the train line from the level of the street, along which a number of formal elements were arranged. These elements then facilitated lightweight structures housing the public elements of the programme, and allowed a spanning structure to cross the canal.
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A view of the new station View of the station from Luas Level View of main public square
As the project developed, the monolithic podium began to be defined as two smaller, functionally seperate areas; one for the commercial activity around the station and shopping facilities, one more private area for the residents of the area. The areas between them became much softer, and far less formalized, inviting the users to inhabit them as they liked, and to use the newer throughways as means of navigating from one area to another, and from one side of the canal to the other.
A,B,C Residential D Retail E Train Station F LUAS Maintenance Facility
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The cladding, a timber rainscreen, will articulate the facade, using differently spaced centres to define public/private The textural treatment f the formal plinths and the routes between will aid in defining their respective
A tectonic idea began to develop about inhabitation and the patterns brought on by ownership. I decided early on to implement a modular timber frame system, which could be treated differently to define particular functions, and a manually operable cladding system that could be opened or closed as the users felt necessary. The idea of a rolling timber lat system developed from here.
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Sketch of a ypical Cladding detail, 1/100 Section of through apartments
A tectonic idea began to develop about inhabitation and the patterns brought on by ownership. I decided early on to implement a modular timber frame system, which could be treated differently to define particular functions, and a manually operable cladding system that could be opened or closed as the users felt necessary. The idea of a rolling timber lat system developed from here.
Detailed Design
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Proposed Site Plan
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1. Apartment Type A 2. Apartment Type B 3. Apartment Type C 4. Apartment Type D 5. General Storage 6. Recycling Area 7. Common Games Room 8. Common Television Area 9. Creche 10. Common Reading Room 11. Building Management Area 12. Supermarket Storage 13. Boxing Club 14. CIE/LUAS Offices 15. Post Office 16. Supermarket 17. Public meeting rooms for CIE/LUAS 18. Cafe 19. Ticketing Booth 20. Residential Car Parking 21. Plant Room 22. Public Park & Ride 23. Train Platforms 24. LUAS Platforms 25. LUAS Maintenance Facility
Floor Plans
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Ground Floor Plan
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1. Apartment Type A 2. Apartment Type B 3. Apartment Type C 4. Apartment Type D 5. General Storage 6. Recycling Area 7. Common Games Room 8. Common Television Area 9. Creche 10. Common Reading Room 11. Building Management Area 12. Supermarket Storage 13. Boxing Club 14. CIE/LUAS Offices 15. Post Office 16. Supermarket 17. Public meeting rooms for CIE/LUAS 18. Cafe 19. Ticketing Booth 20. Residential Car Parking 21. Plant Room 22. Public Park & Ride 23. Train PlatformsParking and LUAS Level Plan 24. LUAS Platforms 25. LUAS Maintenance Facility
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Cross Sections
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C A. Kitchen/Dining Room B. Living Room C. Bedroom D. Balcony E. Bathroom
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Sedum Roof: Sedum Planting in Growing Layer on Drainage Layer on Root Barrier on Damp Proof Membrane on Marine Grade Ply on 100mm x 220mm Timber Beams at 300mm cc on 200mm x 300mm Glulam Beams with 200mm Kingspan Kooltherm K8 Board on 2 x 12.5mm plasterboard to stop 75mm before the end of the Glulam beam Anodized Aluminium on Timber Upstand Red Cedar Batons, 80mm x 60mm @ 100mm cc with missing members as per drawings on Anodized Aluminium runners Anodized Aluminium Window Frames with Double Glazing
Red Cedar Handrail 240mm deep @ 1100mm FFL on 2 x 80mm x 60mm Red Cedar Batons
Reclaimed Douglas Fir Floor Boards on 2 layers of 100mm x 220mm Timber Beams at 300mm cc offset by 150mm horizontally and vertically on 200mm x 300mm Glulam Beams with 200mm Kingspan Kooltherm K8 Board and 1 layer of Mass Loading Vinyl Flexible on 2 x 12.5mm plasterboard to stop 75mm before the end of the Glulam beam Fall on Balcony of 150mm to edge of Glulam structure beneath treated Fir boards to fall to weep holes Sectional Details
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Ground Floor glazing not clad in timber batoning. The underside of the I Beam is to be fit with 2 parallel fixed batons throughout Concrete Block cavity wall to be constructed with blocks on their sides with a 225mm cavity, capped with aluminium Polished Concrete Paving slabs to be laid where appropriate; refer to plans for direction. Pavers to be lain on Harmer Deck Modulock Pedestals
Concrete Block cavity wall to sit on cast concrete upstand with gutter outside sitting on a concrete foundation, to extend 600mm below external ground level, backfilled with gravel Car Parking surface to be polished poured concrete on Kooltherm K8 Insulation board on screed on gravel backfill
Process
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A view of the new station Looking at the apartment blocks from the main plinth
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Sketched axonometric of overall massing View of apartments from street level
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View of original model from north east
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View of original model from north west
Extracts from my sketchbook showing the evolution of the design
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Structure with skin clad externally
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Model showing general arrangement
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Massing, Wrapping and Stacking
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1/500 Site Model from North
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View towards main plaza from West
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Aerial View from South West
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Aerial View from South East