Lucky Lane Housing

LUCKY LANE MEWS HOUSING, DUBLIN

Award, Architectural Association of Ireland Awards 2010

Two terraced mews houses mark the beginnings of a new street on an existing lane in the dense inner city area of Stoneybatter, Dublin. In conversation with the existing returns of the artisan dwellings onto the lane and the larger terraced townhouses to the rear, a ‘double return’ mews typology is developed by employing a return to both the front and rear of the new mews houses. A repeating bracket-like party wall of light polychromatic stock brick establishes the recurring structure and enclosure for the new houses