Shane Phelan Architecture Portfolio

Selected WorksCroì ar mhian: Innisfree Pavilion

This portfolio is a selection of my body of architectural work from the past seven years. It is a mixture of work produced more recently in practice as a graduate architect, various projects from my years in university and a competition entry. The portfolio purposefully exibits a diverse range of project typologies. These demonstrate the skills, knowledge and design experience I have acquired in my architectural career thus far.

Thesis: Fine dining restaurant and open air food Market (Part II)

Innisfree Pavilion: WB Yeats architecture competition

Dr.Hyde Park Stadium redesign

Work in Pratice: House Strandhill road

Schools of thought: Tullamore post primary

Georgian Townhouse Regeneration

Model Images

Resumè

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Thesis: Victorian food marketsMy thesis project consists of an open air food market on ground floor coupled with a fine dining restaurant on the first floor. The city of Dublin was shaped around a topography of sustenance and as such the food culture has played a large role in moulding Dublin into what it is today. The project was situated on Arran Street East and sought to re-engage the city dweller with the degenerated markets area of Dublin in the North Inner city. The new market/restaurant building, coupled with Dublin City Councils refurbishment of the Historic Victorian Fruit and Vegatable market will reawaken this area of the city and help restore the sense of place lost over time.

Cooking stations within food markets

Victorian Markets and Food Market Site Plan

Scale Model of new and existing Markets buildings

Warm mahogany and brick clad rich fine dining spaces above contrasting with the vibrant and corporeal teppanayaki syle dining experience below.

Test structure Model Permeability between existing Victorian Markets and new food market

Intimate Dining room

Perspective Section through intimate fine dining spaces above and open air food market below.

There are a number of cooking stations spread out over the open plan market space that allow a variety of different chefs to exhibite their creativity. The typology then flips above as three more intimate dining spaces serve as a fine dining restaurant.

Innisfree Pavilion: “Croì ar mhian” WB Yeats architecture competition

The competition brief was to explore a conceptual interpretation of WB Yeats poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and produce a piece of work that could be built on the island of Innisfree in Sligo for the 150th anniversary of WB Yeats in 2015. “Croì ar mhian” translates to hearts desire and for Yeats residing among the “pavements grey” of Londons streets, the natural beauty and tranquility of the Isle of Innisfree became the poets hearts desire.

Eye level view of Pavilion from the water

The Lake Isle of Innisfree - William Butler Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and dayI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

Tiered seating with panoramic views across lough gill

Longitudinal Section and Plan showing entrance, reflection spaceand viewing seating

A route across the island brings the visitor though a narrow entrance into a small reflective space within.The permeable walls allowing a brief glimpse of the picturesque area around before the visitor reaches the end and is fully exposed to the raw beautiful environment of Lough Gill.

Pavilion prefabrication stages Journey across island to Yeats Pavilion

Dr. Hyde Park Roscommon GAAStadium Redevelopment Competition

The redevelopment of Roscommon GAA stadium was a recent architectural design competition that my previous practice won. I worked as co-design team lead on the project, co-ordinating with a number of individual collaborators. The project was a 25 million euro commission that would allow the stadium to become an icon of Irish sporting events in the west of Ireland. The North facade commands a striking visual presence from the main entrance promenade and incorporates a modern concourse level for spectators along with new office headquarters for the Roscommon GAA county board.

Render of dominant north facade from main road entrance

Plan and Section of Proposed redevelopment

Render of GAA football match in progress

New promenade walkway up to stadium entrance

Render of dominant north facade from main road entrance

The North facade commands a striking visual presence from the main entrance promenade and incorporates a modern concourse level for spectators along with a new office headquarters for the Roscommon GAA county board.

Family home Strandhill

The brief was for a 200sqm four bed family home in Sligo, Ireland with a budget of 400,000 euro. The house sits on a relatively narrow site and the building centres around a small internal courtyard that is fully glazed. A large double height living space opens off this courtyard and acts as a focal point within the dwelling.There was a stong emphasis on neat detailing and crisp linear movements within and all detailing was done to passive house standards.

Ground and First floor plans

Detailed Section through family home AA

Schools of thought: Stepaside primary school

Overview of primary school Classroom louvres light study model image 1

Classroom louvres light study model image 2 Internal view of multi-use classroom space

Plan of School layout on site Detail section through classroom showing prefabricated sections

The project is an educate together primary school in Stepaside, North county Dublin designed for 210 children. The School has four main internal courtyard areas which are interlinked by a central corridor that divides the site. Four seperate classrooms address each of these courtyards and open out to act as one large interactive space, one each for the junior cycle up to senior cycle. The architecture encourages social interaction and subconscious learning. The building itself is constructed out of prefabricated timber sections that can be slotted together on site, each unit having a solar panel as roofing and rainwater collection in the roof space beneath. The simple and fast construction method allowing this to be become a new model of educational building design.

Classroom louvres light study model image 2

Georgian townhouse regenerationVertical restaurant and subterranean food marketFor the early part of my thesis explorations I

chose to study the Georgian Townhouse typology as a quintessential element of the Dulbin landscape. I explored how the food process originally worked within a Georgian townhouse building then sought to reimagine this to create a contemporary restaurant and subterranean food market. I played with the classic Georgian heirachy by converting the parlour into a grand transition space, the dining rooms were kept towards the rear of the building and by keeping the services and toilets out of sight in the basement below. A large double skin facade was constructed to support the existing red brick facade while simultaneously ventilating the building and providing day lighting contol.

Perspective section though regenerated Georgian Townhouse building

“The city is a vast repository of collective memory.”Aldo Rossi (1989)

Building phase construction

Delapidated Townhouse on Frederick Street in Dublin city centreLight studies and test models

Model Images

Plaster cast roof structure and light test model

Rathaus (councill building) town square and internal study models, Lubeck, Germany

Resumè

Shane Phelan is highly driven young graduate architect who has spent the last year working as part of a well established Irish firm, Vincent Hannon Architects. Shane has also spent the last year working on a number of other design projects including an entry for the WB yeats International architecture competition in Sligo and completing all of the graphic design work for Ballisodare United Football Clubs 40th anniversary celebrations. This was the second competition Shane has entered outside of work and college after he was selected for exhibtion in the 2013 Travelling Scholarship Architecture competition in Dublin.

Outside of Architecture, Shane aspires to travel often, having spent a year travelling alone in 2012. He is also interested in Photography, Graphic Design, Cookery and a variety of sports.

Skills

Dublin School of Architecture, DIT, IrelandBachelor of Architecture (Hons)2008 – 2014

Vincent Hannon Architects,Sligo, Ireland,Graduate ArchitectJuly 2014 - May 2015Worked on a large variety of projects, from large scale commercial projects, including office design, hostel design, heathcare and a stadium redevelopment, to smaller private projects, including a cottage refurbisment and an environmentally friendly family residence.

Blackwood Designs,Sligo, IrelandLandscape DesignerMay 2013 - July 2014Worked as an assistant landscape designer on a variety of projects including a new school landscape layout and a number of private residences gaining a mixture of in-office and onsite experience.

Rhatigan Architects,Sligo, IrelandAssistant ArchitectJune 2011 – August 2011Worked as an assistant architect on a number of different residental and commercial projects.

AutocadPhotoshopSketchupRendering(V-Ray/Kerkythea)ModelmakingHand DrawingIndesignIllustratorRevit

Shane PhelanPart II Architect

Profile

Education

Experience

2015 Stadium Redevelopment Competition Roscommon, Ireland - Co Design Team lead of Winning Entry (Vincent Hannon Architects)

2015 WB Yeats Architectural Competition - Selected for exhibiton in Model Niland Gallery, Sligo

2013 Selected for exhibition: RIAI Travelling Scholarship Competition

Recognition

sphelo4@gmail.comshanephelan.carbonmade.com (further work)+353 87 7444014

Vincent HannonDirector at Vincent Hannon ArchitectsVhannon@vha.ie (+353 7191 50022)

Paul KellyDirector at FKL architects, DublinLecturer in DITPaul.Kellyx@dit.ie (+353 14736350)

Dermot BoydHead of School, DITDirector at Boyd-Cody Architectsdermot.boyd@dit.ie

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