{"id":3131,"date":"2025-08-02T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:13:24","slug":"fuinneamh-workshop-architects-adds-rammed-earth-shelter-to-irish-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/fuinneamh-workshop-architects-adds-rammed-earth-shelter-to-irish-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuinneamh Workshop Architects adds rammed-earth shelter to Irish park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Irish practice Fuinneamh Workshop Architects has completed an events space for the Tramore Valley Park in Cork, creating a “deliberately rudimentary” shelter of rammed earth<\/a>, timber<\/a> and thatch<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The KinShip EcoLab \u2013 dubbed by the studio Den Talamh, meaning “of the earth” \u2013 was designed for arts initiative KinShip, Cork City Council and Creative Ireland<\/a> as a space for meetings and events on the environment and biodiversity.<\/p>\n

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Fuinneamh Workshop Architects has created an events space in a park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The shelter overlooks a marshland area known as Carroll’s Bog within Tramore Valley Park, a former landfill site that has been transformed into a biodiverse park and wetland area.<\/p>\n

Local studio Fuinneamh Workshop Architects<\/a>, which was awarded the project via a two-stage competition, drew on both the site’s history and natural setting to inform a bio-based structure that could “ultimately go back into the ground”.<\/p>\n

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It was designed to host meetings on the environment and biodiversity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The design for the EcoLab is deliberately rudimentary \u2013 its materials are an attempt to respond to the vegetation and tones of the park context,” Fuinneamh Workshop Architects design principal Se\u00e1n Ant\u00f3in \u00d3 Muir\u00ed told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“Our design proposal for the project comes from the idea that materials come from the ground and ultimately go back into the ground,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“Thus, we were quite conscious of the provenance of materials during the design process.”<\/p>\n

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The shelter was topped with a thatched roof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The eight-by-five-metre shelter is supported by two side walls and four large columns. Its scale is a reference to the size of a typical Irish cottage, while the columns are a nod to Greek agoras and the role of the site as a space for discussion and debate.<\/p>\n

The walls and columns were built using rammed earth, the first time the material has been used for a publicly funded structure in Ireland, which was sourced from close to the site and hand processed before being rammed over a nine month period.<\/p>\n