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Ciaran Rooney 16731989
Adaptive Reuse of Car Parking Spaces
SITE ANALYSISSWORDS LOCATION AND CONTEXT
St. Colmcille’s well is on Wells road, off the Main street, SwordsSt. Columba’s round tower is located west of Main street, it was built in the 14th century
Swords origins date back to 560 AD when it was founded by Saint Colm-cille (521–567). The most ubiquitous landscape indicators of Early Chris-tian Settlement are the ecclesiastical enclosures. In Swords case the street pattern has been influenced by the circular alignment of the set-tlement. The medieval town developed in a linear pattern along the Main Street in a north – south axis.. Swords has one of the best examples of this settlement pattern in the Dublin region.
In 1994, Swords became the county seat of the new county of Fingal after the breakup of the former County Dublin; in 2001, it also became the ad-ministrative centre for Fingal.
Fingal County Council’s Strategic Vision for Swords is to create a sustain-able new city. They have referred to Swords as an “emerging city” and project that the population of Swords will rise towards 100,000 by the year 2035. The town is the seventh largest urban area in the country, and the second largest in County Dublin.
The Swords area has direct links to the national road network (M1 and M50) and is located on the Dublin/Belfast economic corridor. It is also located proximate to Dublin Port via the Port Tunnel, and to Dublin Airport via the M1, two of the most important infrastructural assets in the Ireland
Swords Town
Site
EXISITING SITE ANALYSIS
TOPOGRAPHY
HYDROLOGY
VEGETATION
HISTRORIC FLOOD ZONE
HISTRORIC FEATURES ON SITE
Swords had a population of 39,248 in 2016, with 19,531 resi-dent workers and 15,338 jobs.
12,889 households that have car ownership
Barrysparks & Crowcastle Swords, Co. Dublin
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St. Werbrugh’s Well
Ring ditch
SITE ANALYSISINFRASTRUCTURE and PUBLIC TRANSPORT GREEN SPACE AND MAIN COMMERCIAL AREAS
M1 motorway Metrolink rail line and stops Green spaces
Arterial roads Bus stops Main Street
Local roads Site Retail/Commercial areas
PRECEDENT STUDIES
Acton Gardens, London
85.51o Mixed use Building, Cincinnati, OH
HOUSING
DENSITY DIVERSITY
Podium Builidng Wrap Builidng PERIMETER PARKING
FLEXIBILITY
Typology 1
3 Bedroom -3 Storey - Parking
Typology 3
Duplex over Duplex2 Bedroom -1 Bedroom4 Storey - Parking -on street parking
Typology 4- 2A/2B
2 Bedroom -3 Bedroom3 Storey - 5 storey2-3 units per floorParking -on street parking
Typology 4-
2 Bedroom -3 Bedroom3 Storey - 5 storey5-6 units per floorParking -on street parking
Typology 4 - 1/1B
2 Bedroom -3 Bedroom3 Storey - 4 storey2-3 units per floorParking -on street parking
RESIDENTIAL TYPOLOGIES AND NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES
Over 600 parking spaces in residential area alone
SURFACE PARKING SPACE REQUIREMENTS
The footprint of parking space is over 200 percent bigger than the actual building block footrprint
The average car is utilised 5% of the time.
STRATEGY FOR ADAPTIVE REUSE OF PARKING SPACES
‘If you plan for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.’ William H. Whyte (1980)
FLEXIBLE SPACE FOR ON-STREET PARKING BASIC IDEAS
• Reducing the space for cars makes it possible to
substantailly green the area.
• More space for pedestrians.
• Smart traffic circulation and reduction of parking places
creates more space for other activities.
• The car is a guest in the area.
• Functional ambiance that focuses on key elements to create a neighbourhood where the balance of infrastructure and lingering pedestrian space go hand in
hand.
• Creating a better balance between vehicular traffic and
other road users.
• To develop more interesting places where residents can
relax, with landscaping, plantng and seating.
• The idea is to create pleasant and safer streets
• The social aspect is connected to creating spaces for
public, shared or private use.
SKETCHES AND IDEAS
SWORDS - Figure ground map