RIAI Best Building in the Landscape Award Given to House at Roslea

RIAI Best Building in the Landscape Award Given to House at Roslea
The house is situated off a quiet country road on a gently sloping site with views of the hills of Fermanagh.

The site contains an 18th century cottage and outhouse.

The house is located opposite and parallel to the cottage thereby forming an informal courtyard with the outhouse to the east and to the west are mature ash trees and hedgerows, which complete the cluster.

The house has a simple narrow plan form running east west incorporating the change in level across the site.

This long rectilinear form is roofed in a continuous barrel vault, reminiscent of a typical farmyard shed.

This traditional form and its clustering around the existing structures on the site echoes Irish farm courtyards.

A long low secondary element is expressed on the courtyard side of the house by a porch leading to and containing the main entrance of the house.

Internally, the roof is finished in painted strip boarding, the walls in painted plaster and the floors in iroko.

Externally the roof is finished in untreated copper sheeting, the walls in dashed render and the windows and screens in iroko.

The gravel finished courtyard defines the central external space and links the elements of the composition.