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Echo House

• Dublin, Ireland

  The building, once a detached 19th century Georgian style villa, had been engulfed and doubled in size by all manner of extensions. The house was a warren of small rooms arranged over six levels. A waist-height sea wall kept the sea view out of sight.

• We proposed the complete re-modelling of the old villa and the replacement of its myriad extensions with a new wing that echoes the proportions and volume of the villa.

  Formal rooms – hall, living room, library and master bedrooms remain in the Victorian wing, Family rooms: kitchen, utility, gymnasium, childrens’ bedrooms and den and in the new wing.

• The new wing shares the proportion of the old villa but is an open-ended glazed concrete box with a flat roof.

• Both ground floors are raised to the same height - some two feet above existing ground floor level to clear the sea wall and gain a grand vantage over the sea.

  Moving from one wing to the other shifts moods from formal to informal.

• The glass conservatory of the main living space was to be cantilevered over a new infinity rock pool that led the eye to the sea.

  The living room apparently floats into the full panorama of sea and land.

• The sea wall and raised garden bring views of the sea into all rooms.

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