SHREWSBURY LAWN

The development consists of seven apartments located on a corner site at the junction of Johnstown Road and Shrewsbury Lawn Cabinteely. The site is located in an area which has long established residential use and it had been lying undeveloped for some considerable time. It was surrounded on all sides by mature poplar trees thus providing a semi-woodland setting in what is essentially a suburban neighbourhood.

The development consists of three individual blocks which are interconnected providing three two-bedroom apartments on the ground floor and three further two-bedroom apartments on the first floor above these. A third floor located over part of two of these blocks forms a penthouse.

The individual blocks have been stepped in order to respond to the existing curve of the site at the road junction.

Each apartment has been designed to avail of north east and east light into the bedrooms and south and south west light into the living space. These balcony are accessible from living rooms and from each of the bedrooms.

The apartments have been constructed in a traditional manner and are finished in two materials only, white rendered walls and vertical cedar sheeting. These bedroom balconies are carved out of the structural rectangle of each apartment while the living room balconies are constructed in cedar and are fixed to the face of the structure.

The architectural expression of the first floor apartment adjacent to the entrance and the roadway include a curved wall supported on a cantelivered slab which defines the point of entry to the site and contributes to establishing an identity for the project as a whole.

Photographs copyright Ros Kavanagh.