The Awards of the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona

The house of Boyd Cody Architects in Вohermore, Ireland was shortlisted in the House category.

This small rural dwelling, 100m2, is located in the corner of a field on the edge of the village, on a south-facing hill. Two boundary walls one retaining the other freestanding form a forecourt off the public road and anchor the building to the site.
Set within a square footprint of 15x15m, five single storey volumes, increasing internally in width from 1 to 5m and in height from 2.1 to 2.7m in step with the landscape, descend down the hillside. The volumes are drawn apart to create a series of open ended external courtyards between the rooms of the house, potentially doubling the perceived area of accommodation.
The dwelling remains closed to the road, where a recessed entrance formed out of the first volume makes a covered threshold. A doorway set between two parallel walls leads into the enfilade of rooms that in turn open to the courtyards and meadow below.