Cork Rural Design Guide

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   49 Gentle lines look natural - with simple stout pillars 45° Splayed Convex Concave Entrance Types Cork countryside gates Simple, no-nonsense, well crafted wrought iron - decent simple pillars Informed by tradition and encourages local craftsmanship Possible contemporary metal rural gates 3m 4.5m 45° Avoid fussy & over-elaborate entrance gates & lights as well as spikey `frills’ & `bits’ on the stonework Basic Layout Requirements Outer Pillars not always required Wider entrance sometimes required

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   51 summary and checklist Fully considered the 20 items in your site selection and site layout? Achieved an orientation within 15° of south with main living spaces facing south? - i.e. have you achieved optimum aspect? Studied the options for site arrangement and addressed issues such as prominence? - devised a house and site layout to minimise visual impact shelter? privacy and screening? presentation to the road? - attractive frontage, sufficiently buffered from the road Managed the contours of the site? - ensuring the house sits comfortably into the site Designed the landscaping and garden to link with the natural features surrounding the site? - are the new plants indigenous/native? Maintained existing roadside boundaries and supplemented with new boundary treatments appropriate to the landscape setting? Designed a discreet and safe access to the property? site layout have you?

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   53 appropriate house designSignature characteristics of a Cork rural house “Proportion, proportion, proportion” Scale Form The problem: bigger, higher, wider Advantages of the narrow plan form The deep plan form Summary & Checklist part three * This guide does not address building regulation matters. Designers should satisfy themselves that fire safety and building regulations requirements are met. This may require specialist expertise in some cases.

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   55 design As we enter this new millennium we must consider building homes which more confidently reflect our advanced technology and modern lifestyles. At the same time we have a duty to demonstrate an environmental and cultural awareness of the countryside and our built heritage. The success of truly modern rural housing in Cork will be judged on how well these two objectives are met. The aim of this guide is to promote design innovation and flair that is contemporary and firmly of its time. It is also the intention of this guide to ensure that new development acknowledges, respects and reflects the design features and characteristics that contribute to the rural character of the County. This section of the guide has to deal with fairly complex subjects such as proportion, form, scale and massing. These subjects rarely get the attention they deserve when new houses are being planned, yet they explain why many of the pattern book houses that are built today look at odds with our design tradition in Cork and sit so uncomfortably in our landscape. The following pages are aimed at those who draw houses and submit planning applications, with the intention of reasserting some simple first principles with a view to developing more appropriate and well-mannered rural buildings. Getting issues such as proportion, scale, form and massing right and the detail can more easily fall into place. Get them wrong and no amount of frills will compensate for a potentially clumsy, awkward and unattractive structure. It is strongly recommended by Cork County Council that, wherever possible, the services of a skilled design architect are sought to deal with these issues, particularly on sensitive or difficult sites. Picture on opposite page - Interpretation of the simple form of the Irish cottage into a contemporary context. Incorporation of three gables produces elegant and spacious internal spaces. 8079

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   56 contemporary rural design 85 83 86 82 8381 84

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