Ancient Landscapes, Big Skies and Small Towns
Designing buildings in the rural landscape is very different from designing in cities. In the rural environment there is often no obvious context to work from, and the small towns are too small to have any form of official development plans.
In MacGabhann Architects we have sought traces and clues in the landscape as generators for developing building designs. These generators of concept and form can be found in legends, folk memories, place name etymology, local archaeology and geography. The resultant building designs have no obvious front or back, are often sculptural and platonic shapes, or animalistic and godly, and equal from all vantage points.
Tarla MacGabhann,
MacGabhann Architects
PhD by Practice
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PhD phase
PRS 1
PRS
Ghent 2016
Disciplines
architecture
Affiliation
Other
Researcher
Early Stage Researcher