Corrig-Farmhouse Conversion,
Kerry, Ireland
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GSA
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Design
2016-
The client sought to develop the original farmhouse to rent to guests to provide the experience of living on a working farm. The house hadn’t been occupied in several decades and had fallen into severe disrepair though it had “good bones”.
Specifically, the existing structure was composed of an original early 19th Century hunting lodge built for the use by a Lord Lansdowne which had been subsequently added to ad-hoc by successive owners.
The project aims to unpack and reveal the history by exposing the character of original structure and juxtaposing and contrasting it to the best-preserved parts of the subsequent additions. An effort was made to express that original building massive stone walls for their quality while more willfully transforming the subsequent additions as a new shell transformed as need to adapt to the new program.
