Weaver Place is a series of new apartment buildings and family houses on a site in central Dublin, located opposite Weaver Park in the Liberties neighbourhood, south of the River Liffey. Our proposals, co-designed with ABK Architcts, include buildings ranging from three to seven storeys in height along two sides of the new park, designed to reflect the site's history of housing and the city's weaving industry. The scheme provides 55 apartments with private amenity space, split between two buildings, each with a communal courtyard, and 60sqm of commercial space for a café facing the park. All homes are for social rent, managed directly by Dublin City Council.
The scheme is part of the Council's programme to build over 800 new social rent homes using off-site construction to increase build quality and reduce site time and therefore the impact on local residents. We utilised a limited number of factory built wall panels on a lightweight steel structure, with brick and metal external finishes designed to vary between buildings to add character and respond to the local context.
For more details, read our Project Story.
Utilising off-site construction techniques to provide 55 new affordable homes and a café in Dublin.