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The Irish Times
Architectural
Association of Ireland is inviting the public to submit ideas
- and illustrations -of what home means. Emma Cullinan reports
It may seem an odd question - to have an architect ask you what you think a home is - but that's what the AAI (Architectural Association of Ireland) is enquiring of the general public.
Naturally, architects have their own strong views on what a house should be and how to best design them, but they want to open up discussions with the public - i.e. potential clients.
Architecture in Ireland has evolved beautifully in the past few years but there is still a gap between ticky-tacky houses that are mass-produced by certain developers, and something that has been carefully designed with the user, climate and landscape in mind.
This is a delicate subject: if people want pitched-roof, pink bungalows, set back from the natural street line and guarded by large gates, then why can't they have them and who are these haughty, city dwelling architects to tell them how to live?
