“Not only is another world possible. She is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing”
Arundhati Roy
Úna meria Breathnach hIfearnáin Architect | Interior architect | Conceptualist
Sample portfolio of work
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Úna Breathnach hIfearnáin- Curriculum Vitae
4-5 SAUL - School of Architecture at the University of Limerick - Thesis Project May 2012 RECLAIMING CONSTRUCTED WILDERNESS Advisors : Merritt Bucholz, Peter carroll, Anna ryan, Tom Moylan, Irénée Scalbert, Caelan Bristow.
6 Thesis primer project -Shannon Estuary - A monitoring blanket to be draped over the landscape.
7 DIA - Dessau International school of architecture - Semester 8 Project- Maximum city : Istanbul POROUS DENSIFICATION, Led by Professor Omar Akbar Urbanism Project and “Third Landscape” Elective- Burgazada,Istanbul,Led by Professor Andrea Haase
8 DIA- Dessau International school of architecture- Semester 7 project- The Anatomy of creative quarters FEEDING TACHELES, Led by Professor Johannes Kister and Professor Liss C. Werner.
9 SAUL- School of Architecture at the University of Limerick- Semester 6 Project - Public House - ARTISAN BAKERY IN THE CITY Semester 5 Project- Social club - HOW CAN I MAKE A PLACE DANCE, Led by Jan Frohburg, Simon Walker and Maria o’Donoghue
10 UU- School of Architecture at the University of Ulster, Belfast. Semester 4 Project- Landscape and detail, Led by Saul Golden.
11. Professional experience samples
CurriculumVitae
Úna Meria Breathnach hIfearnáin
Architectural Work Experience BUCHOLZ MC EVOY ARCHITECTS, BERLIN, GERMANY
JUNE -- OCTOBER 2010
195 Brú Na Grúadan,
Summer Praktikum in the Berlin office of this award winning Irish firm. I worked on an invited competition project for a research laboratory in Helsinki. My
Castletroy,
main tasks involved working as part of the team for the competitions design and in so doing building various types of models at varying scales and doing studies
Co.Limerick,
of volumetric possibilities and relationships and configuration of spaces through hand sketches and drawings using ArchiCAD and through physical models
Éire
analysing sun paths and shading. MCXVI ARCHITECTS, H-1117 BUDAPEST,FEHÉRVÁRI ÚT 35. HUNGARY
JUNE – SEPTEMBER 2009
“Sonas”,
I was accepted for a three month IAESTE placement with a highly regarded architectural firm in Budapest out of a large number of applicants. I was responsible
Dubhlíos,
for the design of two buildings for competition entry as part of a team. I also was responsible for creating a presentation model of one scheme.
Kiltimagh
I gained a greater knowledge in ArchiCAD and also in office operations but, this experience also benefited my personal development,cultural experience and a
Co. Mayo.
greater sense of the world.
Éire.
TAYLOR ARCHITECTS, CASTLEBAR, CO. MAYO, IRELAND.
JUNE 2007 - September 2008
Working for an award winning Irish office on understanding and drafting construction details and drawings. Helping to prepare contract, tender, fire certificate E-mail Address :
unabhe@gmail.com
and health and safety documentation. Designing internal fittings such as staircases for projects in construction phase.
09002201@studentmail.ul.ie
Assisting senior members of staff on site visits. Drafting designs for feasibility and planning stages.
Phone Number :
00353861699860
P.P.S. Number :
784498B
Date Of Birth :
01/10/1986
Languages :
1. Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic)
Fluent (Mother tongue)
2. English
Fluent (Mother tongue level)
3. German
Intermediate ; Enthusiastic-(taken courses to B2 Niveau &
Skills
lived in Germany for one year)
Hand drafting and sketching/ Photomontage
Nationality :
Interests : Architecture and the built environment and its relation to landscape. Photography. Walking;Exploring. Travel and learning about new cultures, countries and their design ethics. Developing my communication skills and personal development in all possible ways.
Irish
Modelmaking- exploration in material and technique/ structural physical modelling (glulam and large scale timber)
Education : 2009 -2012
Software : AutoCAD 2d/3d , Photoshop, illustrator, indesign, ArchiCAD, Sketch up pro. University of Limerick Bachelor of Architecture (first class honours) B.Arch
Basic skills in Vectorworks, Rhino. Very quick to learn software.
I transferred to third year of architecture at the university in September, 2009 2010-2011
Dessau Institute of Architecture Master of Architecture , Germany M.Arch
Achievements:
I studied there for one year on a transfer agreement from October 2010- July 2011. I achieved first class honours in
2012
my grades and was top of my class in both semester’s studio. 2008- 2009
2005- 2008
2000-2005
I have just completed my studies at SAUL (Ireland) and will graduate in August 2012 with first class honours degree. I received a highly recommended accolade at the Design@UL exhibition opening on the 24th of May, 2012 for my thesis project.
University of Ulster faculty of art design and the built environment, Belfast. B.Arch
2011
I received the highest results in my year for the first year of the Masters course at Dessau Institute of Architecture where I studied.
I gained advanced entry to second year of the course in September 2008.
2009
University of Ulster, I was awarded the Forbo flooring prize for the highest aggregate marks in my year in Architecture.
Sligo Institute of Technology, Ireland Bachelor of the arts in interior architecture (First class honours)
2008
At my graduation in November of 2008 I was awarded the Governing body medal for achieving the highest result and award for the
Overall grade of distinction at completion of degree and won the governing body medal for highest results in my
best overall student in my faculty.
faculty.
In both June 2007 and June 2008 I received awards at our end of year exhibition and awards ceremony for the best final design project
St. Josephs Secondary School, Castlebar.
Leaving Certificate Examination
in my year.
Gaeilge (Higher Level)
A2
English (Higher Level)
A1
References :
Art and Design (Higher Level)
B1
Niall Taylor,
Irénée Scalbert,
Merritt Bucholz,
German (Higher Level)
A1
Taylor Architects,
Architectural Critic/Historian
Bucholz Mc Evoy Architects,
Geography (Higher Level)
B1
Co. Mayo,
London,
dublin 6 | Ireland
Biology (Higher Level)
B1
Ireland
UK
00353949021988
irenee.scalbert@googlemail.com
Mathemathics (HigherLevel) B1
mbucholz@bmcea.com
Úna Breathnach HIfearnáin B.Arch Part II RIAI BA.Int Arch
Thesis Project “Highly recommended” accolade Reclaiming | Constructed Wilderness A place for living , growing , educating and discussing My thesis entitled, “Reclaiming | constructed Wilderness” looks simultaneously at the notion of wilderness and of the construction and preservation of such to create a better reality for our country through proposed architectural intervention.
To use architecture as a tool for nourishment of land in collaboration with that which we perceive as wilderness, that can reclaim the framework of architecture and through its disintegration create a new reality of place. In so doing, I hope to create a sort of metabolic architecture which at the point of reclamation or disintegration mutates into something new; something different and cleanses and heals its site in the process.
school of architecture at the univeristy of Limerick B.Arch Thesis Primer Project Shannon estuary Edge A monitoring blanket - an undulating timber framework for living to spread over the land, over time disintegrating and re- nourishing. In this project I looked at exploring a natural unnatural boundary in Shannon on the constructed edge of water to land. In my project I looked at creating a blanket over the land which would nourish it; to monitor it. To look at temperature , rainfall and collection of energy. It explored the notion of living on the edge and of living under a blanket cover as created by this undulating, energy generating timber cover. I explored the idea of what it means to live and to die so I looked at the cycle of the site from its conception, the drainage of the land, the planting of the protective band of poplar trees, the intervention and creation of the first portion of blanket, the growing and expanding of the system over time and the final disintegration of the timber structures and the re-nourishment of the land which has been damaged over time and by human use.
Dessau institute of architecture m.Arch Maximum city Istanbul Studio , Professor Omar Akbar Porous Densification- Urban Remodelling A simultaneity of Disparate realities We looked at Istanbul a city which is continually growing, we observed the fact that gentrification was undoubtedly taking part in those oldest areas of the city and a phenomenon taking place in many cities in the world was also appearing there that of the creative quarters in which artists inhabit derelict city spaces and make them more attractive so that they finally result in gentrifying the areas thus pushing slum areas next to those most desirable the problem being that the poorest are given the least attention in such a scenario and their sense of community is entirely disrupted if not lost. The solution was to come up with ideas for the integration of all members of society and proposals to keep and also demolish parts of the urban fabric and to inject a more cohesive and dense urbanism there to replace what exists. I looked at a strategy which I called “Porous densification� ; In this I removed some of the older derelict buildings and kept some others and added a greater area of housing and some community facilities and workshop spaces to allow both communities to exist side by side. The porosity resulted in green space and spaces for growing food crops within the now dense urban fabric.
Dessau institute of architecture m.Arch Urbanism and third landscape elective projects, Professor andrea haase The THIRD LANDSCAPE exists in intervened places, It is a landscape of higher diversity than the
INTERVENTIONS
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second. Its starts to try to reintroduce a first landscape. It exists in both shrinking cities and in metropolis. It is somewhere in between the urban and the rural. It looks at the idea of bringing the village back to the cities. Of reintroducing a higher diversity.
1. DIVERSIFYING THE WATERS EDGE.
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The third landscape may be likened to a reservoir carrying all genetic configurations in itself, the Third Landscape represents the biological future. An introduction of even one element of nature builds an eco system. In any case, the Third Landscape can be understood as part of our living environment not based on a conscious decision so my intervention is also in a way unconscious.
2. DIVERSIFYING UNUSED EMPTY BUILDINGS AND INBETWEEN SPACES.
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3. DIVERSIFYING THE EDGE OF RURAL AND URBAN.
The projects looked at the island of Burgazada close to Istanbul and included a re-design of a port, as a mimetic bridge to the city and also at landscape interventions interspersed throughout the island.
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Dessau institute of architecture m.Arch The anatomy of creative quarters Studio , Professor liss c. werner/ Professor Johannes Kister The aim of the studio was to look at and to understand the anatomy of a creative quarter and to use that intellect to intervene to create a new creative quarter or to update one already existing. In every creative quarter there is a sine qua non that exists which feeds this idea of creativity. In my opinion the particular type of anatomy or characteristic really effects the quarter and the way in which such operates. I wanted to somehow reintroduce the idea of a passage into the site. I also had researched those anatomies already existent on the site and I wanted to work on these anatomies, of frail, skeletal and solid to create my project. This project is not just about architecture but about analysing the Genius Loci of this place and creating some interventions on the site to reinject creativity. The project has three such interventions.; a counter action “building� which acts as a permeable membrane to the site, which has a certain ephemeral quality. Second an infrastructure system of drainage and piping to spread the site covered by paths and thirdly an art bazaar which can be reassembled and disassembled along the path adding to the historical context of the passage.
School of architecture at the university of Limerick B.Arch Design of a Public house at Roches street, Limerick city Tutors: Jan Frohburg, Simon walker, Maria o’ Donoghue Artisan bakery retreat in the city centre This project was aimed at looking at the idea of public house as an asylum , as somewhere to escape everyday life . Where an individual may come to be part of a collective. When choosing a program, I had considered something in the creative discipline,industrious perhaps. A bakery as an art form and as an experience of baking one type of the most primeval bread, Sourdough. In my design, I came up with a number of rules to create an internal protective and experiential space. I wanted to create main spaces with pockets there off. In the main spaces light would not come from the traditional opes but from shafts, wells and gaps and in some spaces the space would simply open to the sky for full experience. The journey was to be about one loaf of bread and the singular processes involved were to help as space making devices. Part of the brief was that the design should have an element of HOUSE, COMMON ROOM and ARCHIVE. The large chimney made from terracotta died concrete was the denominator for house, a place of warmth of baking. The common room was that space where the people would collect their flour and water and other spices , being a social and physically mixing space in its architectural configuration. The archive would be that space at the beginning of the process where the sourdough starter would be stored a place that’s full of history and contains the most important part of the recipe.
School of architecture at the university of Limerick B.Arch Design of a social club at Garryglass, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Tutors: Jan Frohburg, Simon walker, Maria o’ Donoghue How can I make a place dance? The site was surrounded by houses on all four sides and there was a constant feeling of being watched. I stayed there for awhile and met a young girl who asked if I wanted to see her dance. I watched her dance on the street ; even though the surface on which she dance was coated with broken glass she was ever peaceful and joyous in her dance. It was amazing to watch this little free spirit and somehow it seemed so odd considering the invisible boundary that existed between her and that of the site to which I was looking to address. My concept for the project looked at the idea of how I could make a place dance. Of this metaphor of a dance and the tension and movement associated between two dancers. This fed the configuration of my structures. As in a dance I had two main structures or dancers, in symbiosis with one another and the skin of the building appearing as if to pirouette to from the ground and off the structure. Then, a third element was added which rotated and caused the type of torque which can exist when a third element enters a dance meant for two.
Univeristy of Ulster school of art,design and built environment. b.Arch Landscape and detail - Education field centre tutors : Saul Golden, Caelan Bristow, Stefanie eisch Something which is always tthere but not always seen This project required us to design an education field centre for Newtownabbey. The site was located on the coast of Northern Ireland. Containing within it a coastal edge and a lagoon. It had become a home to many species and habitats and this was something to be preserved and exhibited within our schemes. It was to include a design for a field centre but also for an entire landscape proposal for Gideons green.
My proposal looked at stripping back the earth and revealing the layers of nature ever present to make an interesting landscape proposal to raise awareness of the natural beauty and the composition of such. As for the building it was to be the same which was revealed under the earth as the sea bed is revealed by changing tides.
Architectural work samples Bucholz mc Evoy architects, Berlin, germany I worked for this award winning firm for four months in Berlin. I worked on an invited competition for the SYKE labs and headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. I worked on all stages of the design for competition and also constructed numerous models of configuration and light studies to simulate what it may be like to inhabit the different schemes. It was a fantastic chance to work on a very detailed competition proposal and to liaise with engineers and to work out all aspects of how the building may work in a BIM analytical model.
MCXVI Architects, Budapest, Hungary I worked for thus firm in Budapest. They were a largely design based practice who entered numerous competitions. I worked on two competitions in which I had almost sole design rights. It was a really interesting experience and gave me a chance to be extremely self critical of my own work.
Bucholz Mc Evoy - SYKE labs, Helsinki
Taylor Architects, Ireland I worked for this award winning Irish firm for a total of 7 months or so over two summers while I was studying on my first degree, Interior architecture. I was given a chance to be involved in numerous ongoing project in the office at all stages. I also had the unique opportunity of being asked to design internal spaces and fixtures for project in the construction phase. Taylor Architects, - Staircase Design
MCXVI Architects - Competition Design Drawings
Many thanks for your interest in my work. If you require any further details of the projects as explored; do not hesitate to contact me.
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