Open House Collaboration

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, Open House Limerick took place between the 6th and 8th of October this year . The interior design and technology students of LIT were lucky enough to have been asked to help out with the event this year.
Our first project brief of this college year was in relation to open house. The main requirements of the brief were:

• Working in groups of 4, complete an information factual sheet for an allocated property for Open House, Limerick 2017. 
• Meet face to face with the architect of the property, interviewing them on the design of the building. 
• Present all of the gathered information in a powerpoint presentation to our peers in the studio. 

The architect my group was allocated was 'Feeney McMahon Architects' and the property we were given was '1, Old Westfields extension'.

The clients brief was:

• The client wished to create an open plan living space by eliminating many of the existing small rooms on the ground floor. 
• The family loved the outdoors and they had a large back garden which they wanted to incorporate into their final design as a source of natural light. 
• The client was a carpenter so he wished to make his own timber window frames for the extension. 
• The client also identified their needs for a utility room on the ground floor and an en suite on the first floor, this meant adding a timber extension to the left wing of the house which wasn't part of the original plan. 
• The clients overall goal was to have a contemporary open plan living space with lots of natural light flooding in. 

Below are images of the before and after plan's for the ground and first floor. 

Below are some images of the final design.