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The brief for the development was to create a contemporary, high quality Strategic Housing Development (SHD) suitable for a prime residential site (0.8525 ha) located at Roselawn and Aberdour on the Stillorgan Road.

The proposed development comprises a single phase, two block site arrangement of seven-storey apartment buildings. 158 No. apartments are provided within the scheme.

As part of the developed design response, the project maintains a focus on an active community environment with nearly 4,000sqft of amenity spaces included within the scheme.

These amenity facilities include a social integration zone within a garden pavilion at podium level, a gymnasium, multi-functional space and work lounge. 91 No. car parking spaces are provided across basement and surface levels within the scheme.

As part of our long-time and ongoing association with Dundrum Town Centre, ALTU were engaged to undertake a full rejuvenation of 1-5 Ashgrove Terrace within the estate, which included an existing open area and events space to the rear and a partially excavated basement.

Prior to works commencing, the Ashgrove Terrace properties were vacant, challenged by dated building fabric and compromised floor plates. The events space was utilised, albeit semi-successfully as a public realm and events area for the Centre, but was challenged by the lack of active frontage, poor landscaping and lighting conditions.

The principle objective in the scheme developed by ALTU was to enhance the overall Pembroke Square District and surrounding public realm by establishing a permanent events space, activated by quality food and beverage offerings – through a blend of retaining the existing structures, sensitively married with a new extension.

The new build extension element mimics the Terrace’s pitched roof form and orientation in its modern idiom, knitting itself into the urban grain of the wider Dundrum area. Large glass openings allow the existing structures to be perceived from the Square. The existing random rubble rear wall of Ashgrove has been retained insofar as practicable and runs from outside to in, becoming a feature interior wall. The single storey extension fills what would be a vacant and unused part of the site. Crucially this provides a boundary, a defined edge to the square as well as acting as active frontage, injecting life into the surrounding area.

The additional uses provided through Pembroke Square will tie in with and complement the wider existing uses of retail, leisure and food and beverage within Dundrum Town Centre.

ALTU Architects are the Design & Build Architects for the new Premier Inn in Dublin’s Clerys Quarter, delivering 229 bedrooms across eight storeys. Set within a major city-centre regeneration project, the hotel is designed to respect and complement its historic surroundings.

The objective of our Client, the Land Development Agency is to develop this vacant urban site to provide much needed Cost Rental and Social Homes to the Local Community.

ALTU Architects approach was to maximise the sustainable density while allowing high levels of daylight to individual apartments and shared amenity spaces.

ALTU’s design solution was to create 3 separate blocks from 3 storey to 8 storey, resulting in 146 Apartments over an undercroft parking level. The 2 larger blocks are designed at 12 to a core.

The development is being delivered to high sustainable energy design standards. The scheme was one of the first in Ireland to achieve Permission through the Section 179A Planning Route classed as exempt development.

This city centre redevelopment of a tired existing 1970s Office building included the retention and temporary support of a large extent of the existing concrete structure.

The redeveloped building has been designed by ALTU to recognise the responsibility between its immediate context and fulfilling its role to adhere to the principles of rhythm, tone, materials, plot width and height predominant on the Quays. A careful balanced approach to transparency and solid-to-void ratio has informed the design development to respect the principles above while optimising daylight and the incredible views available.

The facade has been designed to respect its prominent location and provide a considered well-mannered composition, sympathetic to the existing architectural diversity of the Liffey quays, while clearly a building of its time. The new composition is an elegant contemporary stone framed building with floor to ceiling glazing to the office floors. The stone articulates plot widths and provides strength to the parapet line and legibility to the ground level. Deep reveals to the stone frame provide solidity and integration to the façade.

The stone frame terminates at the fourth-floor parapet level allowing the two-tiered penthouse to be distinct as a lighter, more transparent element.

Coultry Gardens is a large-scale residential development (LRD) situated on a 3.17-hectare site in Ballymun, Dublin 9. Designed for Tuath Housing Association, the masterplan establishes a high-density urban structure that integrates with the existing neighbourhood fabric.

The design follows a perimeter-block layout to enclose the streetscape outwardly while creating quiet, semi-private communal courtyards at the centre of each block. A network of pedestrian pathways and green spaces enhances local permeability, linking Ballymun Road with Coultry Park to the east.

Town Centre 3 (TC3) forms a key component of the wider Cherrywood Strategic Development Zone and is currently progressing as part of a live Expression of Interest process for DLR Properties. The masterplan was developed through an iterative urban design process focused on creating a high-density, sustainable and well-connected urban quarter that responds positively to the evolving character of Cherrywood. Particular emphasis was placed on placemaking, pedestrian connectivity, active frontages and the integration of residential density with high-quality public realm and transport infrastructure. The scheme carefully balances density, height, residential amenity and long-term deliverability while establishing a coherent and commercially viable framework for phased development.

The project further strengthened ALTU’s experience in large-scale masterplanning, phased urban delivery and the creation of sustainable high-density residential environments within complex strategic development frameworks.

ALTU were engaged to carry out a complex structure and fire remediation works of the existing fabric over live retail which included a full building refurbishment of 205 student beds and associated amenity space to bring to a fully compliant state.

The Client aspiration for Belvoir was for a high quality, distinctively designed scheme of 55 no. generously sized, new build apartments. An additional 5 no. units were accommodated within the refurbishment of Kilmacud House.

A key feature of the brief was to sensitively address and incorporate Kilmacud House and its curtilage – an existing listed courtyard building and structure which represents a unique feature of this prominent site.

The design response for the proposed development consists of a site arrangement organized in two blocks, ranging in height from three to five storeys.

Together with the sensitive refurbishment and conversion of Kilmacud House, the overall scheme successfully provides the required accommodation of 55 no. BTR Apartments comprising 11 no. one bed, 34 no. two bed and 10 no. three bed units.

The development also includes provision of 82 no. car parking spaces across both basement and surface levels on the site.

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