A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Conservation Management Plan: St Brendan's Community School, Birr
The Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for St. Brendan’s Community School, Birr (Co. Offaly) is developed from research conducted by Queen’s University, Belfast (QUB) and John McLaughlin Architects (JMCLA) funded by the Getty Foundation’s ‘Keeping It Modern’ grant, awarded in 2018. The project was led by Professor Gary A. Boyd of QUB and coordinated by Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin of JMCLA. It was produced in collaboration with a series of stakeholders including the then incumbent principal Ming Loughnane and other members of the school staff, members of the school management board, the Department of Education and Skills, representatives from the student body, and a series of expert consultants. St Brendan’s Community School, by architects Peter and Mary Doyle is an internationally recognised and unique exemplar of Irish modernism. Designed and built in the 1970s, it is still in use as a school by approximately 1,000 staff and students on a daily basis. Currently the building is suffering from on-going material degradation and thermal and environmental issues. The aim of this CMP is to provide guidance to the owner on how to manage the significance of the place while dealing with the issues surrounding the building’s fabric and environmental performance. It proposes a means to reconcile the school’s ongoing life as an educational facility with its cultural value as an icon of Irish modernist architecture and symbol of an innovative and democratic approach to education in the Irish State. It is divided into five sections: Section 1 presents an understanding of the place through analyses of key aspects of the building: its history, present condition, how it is used by its occupants, and its environmental performance including costs and energy usage. Section 2 provides further interpretative analysis on less immediately tangible and wider aspects of the school and its working and social life presented through a series of maps, diagrams and other new representations. Sections 3, 4 and 5 draw upon these data sets to present ...
Conservation Management Plan: St Brendan's Community School, Birr
The Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for St. Brendan’s Community School, Birr (Co. Offaly) is developed from research conducted by Queen’s University, Belfast (QUB) and John McLaughlin Architects (JMCLA) funded by the Getty Foundation’s ‘Keeping It Modern’ grant, awarded in 2018. The project was led by Professor Gary A. Boyd of QUB and coordinated by Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin of JMCLA. It was produced in collaboration with a series of stakeholders including the then incumbent principal Ming Loughnane and other members of the school staff, members of the school management board, the Department of Education and Skills, representatives from the student body, and a series of expert consultants. St Brendan’s Community School, by architects Peter and Mary Doyle is an internationally recognised and unique exemplar of Irish modernism. Designed and built in the 1970s, it is still in use as a school by approximately 1,000 staff and students on a daily basis. Currently the building is suffering from on-going material degradation and thermal and environmental issues. The aim of this CMP is to provide guidance to the owner on how to manage the significance of the place while dealing with the issues surrounding the building’s fabric and environmental performance. It proposes a means to reconcile the school’s ongoing life as an educational facility with its cultural value as an icon of Irish modernist architecture and symbol of an innovative and democratic approach to education in the Irish State. It is divided into five sections: Section 1 presents an understanding of the place through analyses of key aspects of the building: its history, present condition, how it is used by its occupants, and its environmental performance including costs and energy usage. Section 2 provides further interpretative analysis on less immediately tangible and wider aspects of the school and its working and social life presented through a series of maps, diagrams and other new representations. Sections 3, 4 and 5 draw upon these data sets to present ...
Conservation Management Plan: St Brendan's Community School, Birr
Boyd, Gary Archibald (author) / McLaughlin, John (author) / Keeffe, Greg (author) / Ní Mhearáin, Aoibheann (author) / Kennedy, Tara (author)
2022-01-03
Boyd, G A, McLaughlin, J, Keeffe, G, Ní Mhearáin, A & Kennedy, T 2022, Conservation Management Plan: St Brendan's Community School, Birr. Keeping It Modern: Report Library, vol. Keeping It Modern, Report Library edn, Los Angeles. < http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/keeping_it_modern/report_library/st_brendans_school.html?q=%7B%7D >
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