Grillagh Water House, Located on the Banks of the ?Grillagh River? to locals known as Pixies Paradise, young Architect Patrick Bradley has designed his unique bespoke dwelling set within Northern Irelands Rural Countryside adjacent to the historic Picturesque Drumlamph Woodland, which is the only remains of the ?Great Forest of Killetra? which once would have covered the whole of Northern Ireland.
Photography: Aidan Monaghan Photography
Unlike any other house that has ever been designed and constructed within Northern Ireland, this house takes a completely new approach to rural architecture in the Irish countryside. With the concept an appreciation of agricultural buildings dotted throughout the rural landscape, a house is a refreshing approach to contemporary 21st Century Irish Architecture.
The house is the first modern shipping container construction designed and built in Northern Ireland, with the primary structure made up of four 45ft shipping containers, merged together to form two large daring cantilever forms. The containers are cloaked with a dark grey colored expanded metal to the top form with natural corten steel to the lower form, which could only be considered a piece of art or sculptural nestled into its surrounding landscape. The dwellings layout has been cleverly designed to take full advantage of the site outstanding views to the surrounding picturesque landscape, mountains beyond, historic Drumlamph woodland and nearby Grillagh River (salmon river).
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