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Le Cheile Education Centre
Architect:
TAKA Architects
Award Type:
Irish Architecture Awards
Location:
Dublin
This project demonstrates the effectiveness of a small headquarters building which provides limited working spaces combined with facilities to accommodate collaborative interactions with colleagues and visitors from external communities. The architects have scrutinised the client brief to produce a simple well-detailed building. They have facilitated the required functional accommodation, but enhanced their requirements with the addition of external spaces, providing areas to greet visitors, decamp from meetings, meditate quietly or interact informally. The internal spaces, organised either side of a top- lit central spine corridor, extend beneath low deep overhanging eaves from the large meeting room into an enclosed walled garden, or from cellular offices out across wildflower planting to manicured lawns. The eaves are a significant architectural device which facilitates the expansion of a small building footprint into additional external accommodation. The architects have ensured that a simple robust material palette has been finely detailed, well-crafted to achieve a comfortable homely working environment for all occupants and visitors.