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About
Davey & Smith Architects is a small design led practice founded by Greg Davey and David Smith in 2010. Located in Clontarf, we have extensive experience with a wide range of building typologies and provide a diverse selection of services.Each project is developed individually through detailed dialogue with the Client, so that an informed and inspired solution can be achieved. Our aim is to provide an integrated design that is light filled, energy efficient and contemporary, backed up with an efficient and professional service.Directors...........................................................................Greg Davey MRIAI, BArch, Dip Arch TechGreg graduated from DIT Bolton Street in 1998 with a Diploma in Architectural Technology. After working in private practice in Dublin, he returned to DIT to study Architecture and graduated with an honours degree. He has spent the last 10 years working with various offices including Mecanoo Architects in the Netherlands, FKL Architects, DTA Architects and OMP Architect in Ireland. His experience ranges from small domestic remodelling to large scale residential and commercial developments.Greg is a Registered Architect and member of the RIAI.Email: greg_davey-smith.comDavid SmithMRIAI, Dip Arch, BArch ScDavid graduated from DIT Bolton Street in 2000 with an Honours Degree in Architecture.Since graduating, David has worked with FKL Architects, DTA Architects, and J McSweeney Architects and has experience in a wide variety of commercial, cultural and domestic projects.From 2006-2008 David was President of the Architectural Association of Ireland and has also sat on the Council of the Royal Institute of Architects of IrelandDavid is a Registered Architect and a member of the RIAI and Honorary Member of the AAIEmail: david_davey-smith.com Davey + Smith Architects is a limited company and Practice Member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland
Laytown Courtyard
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Lispopple House
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This new build family house is located on a rural site in North County Dublin, adjacent to the family farm. The site is exposed, sitting towards the top of a local valley, with a good east-south-west orientation and views accross the agricultural landscape.The part one and two storey house is conceived as a series of natural slate pitched roofs mastered by a blue limestone wall which faces the road and provides cover from the prevailing westerly wind. The plan is arranged in a series of linked linear arrangements with the garage and utility spaces facing the road, kitchen and living spaces facing south and bedroom accommodation facing east and north. The roofs form a series of linked double height spaces, punctured by roof lights. An oak floor provides a material link across the spaces and large windows provide views out into the landscape. The palette of finishes internally is restrained, with simple white plastered walls that accentuate the spaces and harmoniously blend with the floors.
Rural Homestead Lispopple
Seapark Road
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This project is the renovation and extension of an existing semi-detached family residence in Clontarf. The site has an east-west orientation and is characterised by a 60m long rear garden with extensive mature trees and planting. The client brief was for an open plan kitchen and family area with an additional first floor bedroom and attic conversion. The east-south facing garden was the main influence in the design. Upon entering the house, a visual connection to the garden is immediately established by opening a circulation route that runs from the front to the back of the house, via a full height pivot door and ending in an expansive view. A ground floor rear extension containing the kitchen and dining areas was added with floor to ceiling glazing and a deep, rooflight punctured, canopy which formed a covered outdoor seating area. A new master bedroom and attic extension, both also facing the garden, were added. These elements were clad in green prepatinated standing seam aluminium.
Sheltered Garden Extension Seapark Road
Clontarf Courtyard
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A south facing courtyard was used as a design device to resolve the problem of extending living space to a property situated on a long and narrow plot. The kithen is placed in the centre of the plan, within the existing rear return and facing directly south. To either side of the kitchen and courtyard are the family room and live/work room respectively.
Courtyard Extension Clontarf
Stiles Road
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Courtyard Extension - Stiles Road
Belgrave Villas
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A terrace of three Georgian houses, designated as protected structures, sit to the south-east corner of Belgrave Square in Dublin 6. The central house, a two and three storey double pitched roof structure with a rear return, had been part renovated and now required extra space. The brief was for a ground floor rear extension to the south facing garden and refurbishment of the bathrooms located in the return.The existing kitchen plan is rationalised to accommodate a utililty room and bathroom. The garden is excavated to accommodate a floor-to-ceiling glazed single storey canopy and external sitting space. Rooflights puncture the canopy, allowing light into the depth of the plan. The material palette is restrained, incorporating stone floors, plastered walls and a white metal roof.
Belgrave Villas
Phillipsburgh Ave
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This house sits on an awkward corner site on a main thorough-fare in North Dublin. The client has a growing family and wished to increase the kitchen and living areas, extend to the side and convert the attic into a bedroom. Site and budgetary constraints determined the quantum of build, resulting in a form that is moulded into the space between the existing garage and the main house. The ground floor plan is a series of linked living spaces, all orientated towards the west facing rear garden with an expansive glazed facade. The walls are finished with a bespoke formed metal cladding [commonly used in agriculture] which enlivens the facade, accentuating the window opes and contrasting with the finishes of the existing.
Philipsburgh Ave
Clonsilla Road
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This extremely long, east-west facing site in a West Dublin suburb has a large derelict house insitu. The brief is to knock the existing dwelling and replace it with a new home, making the most of the large back garden and favourable orientation. The plan organisation is based on a linear arrangement of spaces either side of a central circulation space. This part double height space runs from the front door and culminates in a view through the living spaces to the garden. Living spaces are interlinked and flexible, with a disabled accessible bedroom suite on the ground floor, reflecting the Clients' 'lifetime' approach to the design. Bedrooms are located on the first floor within the roof structure, which forms an undulating pitched cover, with rooflights and overhangs to control daylight.
Clonsilla Rd
Kanturk
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A previously approved planning permission for a large rear extension was required to be assessed, rationalised an realised on site. The existing split level house, built in the 70's, sits on a steeply sloping west facing site, with views over a river and farmlands. The existing plan layout required extensive amendments, resulting in a comfortable open plan sequence on the ground floor, with living, dining and kitchen spaces all reoriented to face the garden. A new master suite on the first floor gains a terrace overlooking the river.
Extension & Refurbishment - Kanturk
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The project brief was to fit a four bedroom family home onto a tight wedge shaped side garden to the existing family home. The existing garage was to be demolished to make room for the new development and the existing house was to be extended to the rear and fully refurbished.The client requirements for the new house were such that existing building lines and forms would prevent the realisation of the brief. There was also existing drainage that had to be addressed including diverting a main sewer as well as privacy issues with adjoining properties. The new house was designed around an open plan living and kitchen space that has dual aspect to the north facing rear garden and south facing front garden. Two bedrooms are also located on the ground floor with the master bedroom and third bedroom located within the roof space. The house is finished externally in an insulated self-colour render system with the dormers and roof finished in a natural slate.
Garden House Blackrock
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Limekiln
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This dormer semi-detached house in Terenure was in poor repair and required an extensive remodel and extension. The brief was to increase the accommodation with a large open plan kitchen/ dining/ living space to the rear, service spaces to the side and three bedrooms within the large attic space. The existing raised timber floor was removed and a new slab was poured to increase the floor to ceiling height. The ground-floor plan was simplified with a study facing the front garden and all other living spaces facing the rear and enjoying the benefit of a southerly aspect. The bedrooms on the first floor are accessed off a wide landing with a new master bedroom facing the garden. Garage and utility spaces are located to the side. The house is finished in white pebble dash with contrasting black aluminium windows, doors and cladding. Internally the house is finished in white plaster with the hallway and stairs clad in stained hardwood.
Remodel Limekiln
Parnell Cottages
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This project involves the refurbishment and extension of an existing single storey 1950's house. The existing central corridored plan was refreshed and rationalised, with the front door repositioned and the living areas opened up to create a large open plan space orientated to the large back garden. A large rooflight is introduced over the dining area and a large canopy over the south facing rear terrace, creating a covered outdoor sitting space. The house is to be highly insulated, with continuous external insulation system and roof insulation.
Parnell Cottages
Waverley
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The brief for this project involves creating a usable family living space in a constrained rear garden in an urban neighbourhood. Design considerations from the outset were to be considered within the parameters of a specfic budgetary requirement.Survey and design solution- a single open plan kitchen/ dining room, with a large glass door to the rear yard- were agreed in a matter of days, with tender documents released a week later.
Waverley Avenue
Rural House - Kilkenny
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Rural House Design - Kilkenny
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