Architecture Tours
Goethe-Institut Irland @ Open House Dublin 2024
Festival of Architecture
Open House Dublin (OHD) is Ireland’s largest architecture festival, inviting all citizens to explore their city. It works through a simple but powerful idea: showcasing outstanding architecture for everyone to experience. Buildings that aren’t usually accessible to the public and buildings of architectural merit open their doors for one weekend, with architectural tours provided by expert guides.
The new build is designed to service the existing building and forms a single functional unit consistent with the Georgian plot arrangement of House/Garden/Courtyard/Mews/Courtyard. The combined project achieves a BER rating of A3, which sets a new standard for a protected structure of this era. To mitigate the scale of the mews development, the new build makes a material distinction between a solid base (including the garden walls), and an emergent crystalline form, glazed with a bespoke vertically spanning high performance triple glazing system with an inter-layer of copper mesh between the outer two layers of glass. This provides a mild vision screen and acts as a solar gain protection layer. The building alternates between reading as a glass box and a metal box. At night the building reads differently again as some sections of the glass box are opaque and others are transparent.
The tours last approximately one hour.
Bookings are possible via Open House Dublin
Presented by Open House Dublin and the Goethe-Institut Irland
Details
Goethe-Institut Irland
37 Merrion Square
Dublin
D02 XK52
Ireland
Language: Englisch
Price: Admission free, booking required via Open House Dublin
+353 1 6801110 Info-dublin@goethe.de
The new-build (language department) is fully wheelchair accessible. Please note that due to the protected structure of the Georgian building, the main building is only partially wheelchair accessible.
Tour suitable for children