This house is a two storey house with vehicular and pedestrian access from the Bray Road. Occupying an area of 287 sqm area, the Dublin architecture firm, Odos Architects completed this building in 2006.
Simply the house is a bold sculptural form which located at the foot of the steep escarpment in the Wicklow hills. The house accommodation is comprised of a two car garage, boiler room, wc and utility at ground floor level and open plan living, kitchen, dining areas with 3 bedrooms, study and family bathroom at first floor level.
The building is entered on foot at first floor level via a long stepped processional route to the front of the building. The façade to this stepped approach has been purposely left blank to focus the entrant to the point of entry whilst also weighting the propped cantilever appropriately.
Internally the hallway at main entry level has been conceived as an “internal street” the dimensions of which widen to the more public aspects of the plan and diminish along the points of entry to private bedrooms and bathrooms. A study at main entry level offers a taste of the internal experience prior to entry.
The roofscape is peppered with rooflights in an attempt to engage the user with the steep escarpment to the rear of the house. This affords the occupant vertical views of sky and foliage from the most private spaces within the house.
This house allows the fluidity of the surrounding landscape remain uninterrupted, whilst also giving the occupant a raised vantage point from which to engage with nature.
Via. Photography by Ros Kavanagh and Odos Architects.
This is really weird. I wonder what the owner feels living here. Its quite an architectural design though, this can pass for some sort of guiness record.