David Leech Architects has built a two-storey house in Dublin that plays on the design of its neighbours to make something "ambiguous yet familiar".
Called, A House in a Garden, the project features a corner-glazed dining room that can be opened to the garden.
Photo is by the architect
The house riffs on the design features of its neighbours ? such as cream rendering and a pitched roof ? and exaggerates them to create what David Leech Architects called a "contemporary translation of the ordinary suburban house".
The site sits at the end of a short 1940s terrace.

Organised around a cross-shaped core, the plan has been roughly split into four.
A library and dining room overlooking the garden, and a living room and kitchen sit on the more enclosed side of the site. Photo is by the architect
This arrangement creates what the practice called a "continuous loop of circulation" around the core, where the floors have been stepped to create a different ceiling height in each room.
Where these rooms overlook the garden with glazing, a recessed track has been added to allow them to be enclosed with a curtain when required.
Photo is by the architect
In the dining room, glazed doors can be slid back to let the space spill out into the garden.
At first floor level the plan is split into three bedrooms and a bathroom, arranged around a landing space that is illuminated by a skylight within an extruded chimney stack emerging from the apex of the roof.

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