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House-Evolucio, The architect house for everyone

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House-Evolucio, The Architect House for Everyone

Innovative living concept in modular construction

  • Flexible: minimal tiny house or spacious Loft house character and pre-planned interfaces for easy architecture changes according to individual needs;
  • Environmentally friendly: minimal ecological footprint
  • Cost-effective: modular construction and architectural-grade materials for cost-effective construction
  • Flood-proof: elevation for safety in flood-prone areas

House EVOLUCIO is a flexible, growth-capable and intergenerational housing concept that combines living and working in the city.

The distinctive architecture is able to structurally adapt to the changing needs of its residents without changing the basic architectural concept. Flexibility in floor plan design and planning of the individually separable apartments as well as barrier-free accessibility are planning principles that create the conditions that allow for the house to be able to adapt equally to the individual requirements and needs of different generations and life situations. The consistent architectural concept enables a cost-effective realization without compromising quality.

Services: HOAI LP 1-9

Client: private

The Erich Kaestner House of Literature, Conversion of Museum Rooms

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The Erich Kaestner House for Literature, Dresden

Conversion of the museum room

The structural changes made it possible to maintain the distance regulations for visitors to Dresden’s popular literature museum required during the Corona pandemic, so that museum operations could be safeguarded in times of pandemic.

The previously highly structured premises of the Erich Kaestner Museum, consisting of a checkroom, hallway and exhibition room, were converted into a spacious museum room using our opening room concept. Entrance and exit of the museum were separated from each other in the new concept.

In addition, the museum rooms were redesigned according to Ruairí O’Brien’s color concept.

Services:

  • Structural engineering (overall planning, incl. statics)
  • individual color concept
  • Redesign of the museum rooms

Planning / execution 2020 / 2021

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