AI Residence

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Projects
  • AI Residence
  • New Dwelling and Studio
  • Limavady Co Derry / L’Derry
  • Under Construction

Located at the foothills of the Causeway Coast AONB near Limavady this house project will provide a place to gather a family together in more comfort and with more personal space. Conceived as a three bedroom house with studio annex the main house points towards the Binevenagh mountains offering views of the mountains across the open fields and landscape. The studio annex offers a workspace on the ground floor with bedrooms above. Ideal for an artist. The New house presents a vernacular agricultural building form of two storeys with the upper storey clad in rough sawn charred larch referencing its agricultural location. Space heating and hot water is heated by an air source heat pump with a combination of underfloor heating and radiators. A mechanical ventilation and heat recovery system keeps the indoor climate fresh and healthy without opening windows and losing heat. The project seeks to provide a family often far apart with a place to gather and be together and at home.

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For this small church, the conversion to a domestic function seemed natural and uncontentious. The scale of the original church building was domestic and the decoration modest. The new function also modest and singular in purpose in that it is for a new family or people to live together in “under one roof”. Tattykeeran Church may have become simply 44 Tattykeeran Road but it is still there for those who were baptised or married in it to see and we hope it has been presented in such a way that the sensibilities of those people and the significance of those community and life events are not slighted but preserved. Certainly the comments and words from many interested visitors and parishoners to the project during construction (among them the Sunday school teacher, the sextons son) would indicate that it has been a success in this respect. A further gesture and nod of approval has come from vestry committee of the surviving Colebrooke Estate church who have reintrusted us with the original bell (it is suitably minus the clapper) made in Murphys Foundry in Dublin.