The objective of the scheme is to blur the line between internal and external public space. The inner courtyard feeds light and air into the protective spaces that wrap around it and pulls the sky deep into the plan. Series of internal voids and raised external courtyards ensure that natural light and air filters into every individual space.

Colegio Altamira, Santiago – Mathias Klotz Munkegaard school, Copenhagen – Arne Jacobsen Secondary School, Vienna – Henke & Schreieck Semester Two “ Learning and the City” Lamb Lane Secondary School This project is the design of a Secondary School to accommodate 400 students in the Industrial area of Dublin known as “The Liberties.” My emphasis is on communicative space between classrooms where younger and older students interact and learn from one another. My school is a microcosm of the city where corridors become streets, assembly halls become public squares and classrooms look out to framed views of Dublin city. Concept sketches and models

The bedrock of Dublin is a unique black limestone known as “calp”. Built from calp, fragments of the original Viking Dublin city wall are present on site. This prompted me to create a scheme of heavy calp walls which rise from the native bedrock to support light, reflective elements in between. The richly textured glittering black exterior walls are rendered inside with bright and playful stucco veneziano. This is a school where the structure itself is an education in the roots of the city as well as becoming a natural modern layer.

This was a project undertaken in technology studio to design a learning space in St. Patrick’s park, Dublin city. I placed strong emphasis on natural and sustainable building materials and green technology. The result is a pavilion of local cob, reconstituted brick and Irish green oak. The cob has zero embodied energy costs and works hard in the passive heating strategy due to its high thermal mass capacity.

B A M B O O B R I D G E Cable Stay Bridge of Giant Bamboo - Jatun Sacha Biological Station – Oriente, Ecuador which I helped to design and construct.