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Now -and -Here

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Now-and-Here

Architectural design for new Luxury restaurant and hotel building, Postplatz Dresden

The purpose planned here is a special inspiration for architectural creation. To create a house for a real day and night cycle is tantamount to a homage to the self. A house which includes a bistro with a lively morning café and “nightlife” that celebrates everyday life, that can benefit from the street flair of a sunny piazza and has the special magic of a sophisticated evening restaurant, possibly world-class, is a building that captures the rhythms of life and “talks” to the sun and the moon. Food and the preparation and transformation of food with simple ingredients into unforgettable moments of pleasure have parallels with high quality architecture, also created with imagination and attention to detail.

Moreover, the 360-degree concept makes it possible to face, at eye level, all the neighboring buildings and squares – to the theater opposite, to the piazza on the south side, to the façade side facing the Zwinger (with the large eye positioned in the center and the roof terrace with gallery) or to the entrance facing the Postplatz. The building acts outwardly with a generous gesture of openness and friendly invitation.

Color and Light Concept Villa Regerstrasse

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Color and Lighting Concept Villa Regerstrasse

Psychotherapy Institute for Children and Adolescents

German Society for Behavior Therapy in Saxony, Germany. Institute for Children and Adolescents in Dresden (2021-2022)

The institute’s new location is a newly renovated, landmarked villa in Dresden-Blasewitz, Germany.

Light, color, and material choices play an important role in creating the right atmosphere for all age groups and the various scenarios of discussions, presentations, and meetings that take place at the institute. As those responsible for the interior design, it was of utmost importance for us to balance the heaviness of the old, charming building with bright, friendly, appealing and even thought-provoking interiors. The choice and use of different colors, lighting fixtures, mirrors, materials and decorative elements tell stories that give the reception, offices and therapy rooms their own identity. The impressive staircase is celebrated as a special space that connects the floors. The dark basement needed special attention so that it could be used for seminars and educational purposes. At the Psychotherapeutic Institute in Dresden, child and adolescent psychotherapists and psychological psychotherapists are trained with a strong practical orientation. In addition, outpatient psychotherapeutic treatments are offered in the institute’s outpatient clinic.

Requirements for the current use are as follows:

  • Work office / administration
  • Treatment of patients / therapy rooms
  • Training / seminar rooms
  • Flexible uses – adaptation / change between seminar and group therapy uses

Photos: Peter Fischer

Pedestrian zone Baeckerstrasse Torgau

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Baker Street Torgau

Lighting for the pedestrian zone

Ruairí O’Brien planned new lighting for the historic market square and pedestrian zone in the listed old town area. Conceptually, the focus was on the integration into the urban environment and an optimal use of the public space.
An identity-creating, contemporary and resource-saving lighting for the Renaissance town of Torgau was created, which integrates itself urbanistically into the existing ensemble, increasing the quality of stay of the public space and highlights the function of the Baeckerstrasse as the main shopping street in Torgau.

Client: City of Torgau
Services: Lighting concept

University Hospital, House 52, Recovery Rooms

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Dresden University Hospital, House 52

Light and color concept for the recovery rooms in the anesthesia area

Ruairí O’Brien developed a lighting and color concept for the design of the recovery rooms in the anesthesia area of the Dresden University Hospital that better meets the requirements of this hospital area. The task was to integrate the lighting into the existing grid ceiling and existing electrical installation. In order to ensure optimal lighting for the patient and the treating specialist staff, different lighting situations can be combined, which are controlled manually or with the help of a program.

Frankfurt Riedberg 1

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Frankfurt Riedberg

Architectural study for the development of a new residential area in Frankfurt am Main

In dialogue with the project developer of the Frankfurt-Riedberg district, the Hessen-Agentur, we have developed detached single-family houses with a contemporary architectural language based on our Haus Evolucio residential concept for the Henning-von-Tresckow-Strasse residential site.

The different housing types in three variants (elevated, gable roof and staggered roof) are designed to meet different target groups and situations of use with different floor plans. The basic system can be variably equipped in different desired levels: a house type for everyone.

The Loft house character enables a high architectural quality at an affordable price, as fast construction methods are optimally combined with building craftsmanship qualities from a growing basic system.

The houses offer clear, simple floor plans with optimal division of space. To emphasize the loft character and for a cost-effective as well as high-quality architecture, all lines (electrical, water) can optionally be laid visibly on plaster. The story ceilings can be left partially open and the resulting air spaces with continuous visual axes from the ground floor to the roof can be closed later if required.

The user also has the option of selecting the desired number, type, size and shape of windows. The exterior facade can be partially clad with masonry, faced with wood or suitable metal, or plastered as desired. The interior walls are made of lightweight construction and can be easily moved as needed, if the room layout changes according to user preferences.

Menagerie Gardens Dresden

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Menagerie Gardens Dresden

Architectural Study for the Development Plan

“Living in the city center” and “living in the countryside” are not opposites. On the area of the former Bramsch site, 33 individual townhouses are being built for private developers. With its flexible modular principle, Haus EVOLUCIO ideally fulfills the wishes of individual clients without neglecting what the development plan and the green location near the Elbe in the middle of the city place would require for future development. Sophisticated urban architecture satisfies the demands of urban living within green surroundings.

On behalf of the property owner TLG and in coordination with the city planning office, we have designed possible house models:

Floor area: rectangular or square

Floors: two- or three-storied

Floor plans: flexible

Energy: low energy house or passive house

Flood protection: elevated concept

Flat roof: extensive greening or solar roof, optional: roof terrace

Customs port, Mainz

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Lighting Concept Zollhafen, Mainz

Lighting concept as competition entry

Within the framework of a competition for the redesign of the Zollhafen Mainz, this lighting concept was developed, in which the theme of the harbor is expressed metaphorically and thus contributes to an urban-poetic statement. The aim is to emphasize the maritime character of the harbor and also to better orientate passers-by through the different lighting of the outer and inner areas and to make the area is generally more inviting.

Competition entry together with hutterreimann landscape architecture

micromuseum Architecture, Dresden

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micromuseum Architecture, Dresden

Exhibition celebrating the German Architects’ Day in the German Hygiene Museum Dresden

On the German Architects’ Day 2011 in Dresden, the Saxony Chamber of Architects presented the exhibition installation “micromuseum architecture” by Ruairí O’Brien as part of the supporting program designed by the AKS for the DAT 2011 and as an element of the AKS’ multifaceted commitment on the occasion of its foundation 20 years ago.
The object consists of basic modules, shelves and connecting elements that can be variably combined with each other. With a minimal number of these modular components, the exhibition installation can be flexibly set up in 4 different scenarios and equipped with different information materials to look at and touch as required. The exhibition installation embodies ubiquitous basic principles in architecture: the dialogue between the horizontal and the vertical, between inside and outside, between spatial boundaries and empty space, between surface and body.

Client: Saxony Chamber of Architects, 2011

Execution: German Workshops Hellerau

Memorial Honorary Grove Zeithain

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Memorial Honorary Grove Zeithain

Concept and realization of the permanent exhibition

Architecture, exhibition, lighting

With the literal planting of a new architectural-thematic heart, the “walk-in showcase” as a micro-architectural implantation in the historical RAD barracks preserved from the former prisoner-of-war camp Zeithain, the bridge between (structural) past and present is successfully built.
This glass structure, a microclimatic soundproof object, thematizes not only time but also space in a special way and, as a time capsule in a place with a special auratic effect, it creates a deliberate irritation that sensitizes the visitor to the exhibition theme. In the document house the visitor has the possibility to work on the offered thematic focal points in the operable micro-architectural information sculptures, which are executed in the same exhibition language, whereby new visual axes are offered again and again and an intensive reference to the content material is created with light/ mirrors.

Sachsenburg concentration camp

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The Glass House

Competition Kommandantenvilla KZ Sachsenburg

2021 we took part in the competition for the redesign of the “Kommandantenvilla” in the memorial site KZ Sachsenburg with this contribution.

Short concept / Explanation

At the beginning of the day, the prisoners of the camp were brought to the central yard, the roll call square. From there, the prisoners had an unobstructed view of the commandant’s house, where he lived with his family. And he had a view of the prisoners lining up in the yard from his house. In the post-war years, this line of sight was blocked by the construction of another garage between the commandant’s house and the square. In our contribution we made two proposals.

1. The installation of a billboard with the image of the Commandant’s House restores the visual connection between the house and the square.

2. The initiators of the competition stated that the Commandant’s House should be demolished up to the height of the base and the basement of the house should be filled in. Our proposal was to replace the commandant’s house with a glass house that would reflect the shape and volume of the original. This glass house was to be used for growing plants, fruits, and vegetables and could serve as a meeting, learning, and activity space for youth.

Competition entry together with Susan Donath