Mornington Park Apartment Development - The project occupies a constrained suburban site in Dublin, formerly a single bungalow set within a large garden. Its context is mixed: a business park to the south and two-storey residential development to the remaining boundaries. Rather than suppressing this ambiguity, the proposal responds to it, using form and scale to mediate between contrasting conditions.

The brief seeks high-density one-bedroom apartments in an area well served by existing services and infrastructure, responding to a pressing housing need. Density is approached as a question of quality as much as quantity—how compact living can remain generous in light, outlook, and shared space.

The scheme is organised as a series of parallel blocks set within the depth of the site. This arrangement establishes a clear rhythm, allowing the massing to step between domestic and more robust urban scales. Between these blocks, a glazed winter garden forms the environmental and social centre of the project. Neither fully internal nor external, it draws daylight deep into the plan, moderates climate, and provides a shared space that encourages informal encounter.

Through restraint in form and the careful calibration of shared and private realms, the project reconsiders the suburban plot as a site of collective value—intensifying use while reinforcing the social and spatial fabric of the neighbourhood.