This new, single-story house is an overgrown piece of timber furniture overlooking the Irish Sea and the Cooley Mountains. The frame structure perches on a block plinth to allow every eastern room to take in every angle of this beautiful view. Three timber trusses interlock to create a cranked plan that comprises an introverted bedroom/study wing and an extroverted living/guest wing, meeting at a central kitchen. Its slate roof is a craggy range of pitches that crack open to the sky and that extend to hang over verandas.
Cineál Research + Design is a collaborative architectural practice led by Phoebe Brady and Sarah Doheny since 2021. Cineál identifies with an environmentally sensitive practice where drawing, designing and building processes are rooted in place, connecting local landscape knowledge, ecology, geology, climate and weather. Their project ‘Tiny House by the Sea’ was a special mention in the AAI Awards 2025.
The studio uses experimental forms of mapping and observation as a way to understand the iterative ecologies between communities and their environments. This has involved modes including - but not limited to walking, drawing, photography, sound recording and public engagement. Their current research focuses on the life of rivers through discursive interdisciplinary workshop, in projects such as ‘Take Me to the River’, a collaboration with Solstice Arts Centre and ‘The River Alive’ with Avonmore Catchment Collective.
Jack Hogan is an artist and former SANAA employee whose work focuses on the rich sociality of everyday life, foregrounding friendship and what constitutes good shared lives and places.
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