Space Planning & Interior Design
Government Decentralisation Offices, Waterford

Situated on the Cork Road on the outskirts of Waterford City, this office development takes advantage of it’s sloping site.

Two office blocks step back up the site from the re-aligned road frontage providing the necessary accommodation while maintaining a scale in sympathy with it’s surroundings.

The landscaped site is organised in a campus style layout. The blocks, which are both arranged round an internal courtyard making the most of natural light and ventilation, are placed on the site so as to emphasise the ground double and triple height entrance areas which in turn provide a civic feel and scale appropriate to such buildings.

The facades of the building are a mannered composition of well proportioned windows and large glazed elements organised by a hierarchical use of materials.

This includes a rustic rendered base with self coloured render above, separated by reconstituted stone string courses while the use of projections and steel balconies provide added relief.

 

SIZE: 8,300m2
COST: £5.5m
COMPLETED: 1997
DETAIL: Regional Offices for Decentralised Gov. Depts.