Cork City Passive House
This beautiful Cork City Passive House is progressing well on site. It features beautiful glu-laminated timber (‘glu-lam’) structural beams and columns in larch and spruce. The exterior is a series of timber glu-lam members that create a screen on which we will grow vegetation.
The function of the timber screen is more than just aesthetics, the shade contributes to the effective environmental control of the house by eliminating over-heating in Summer. We are logging progress of this and other projects on site, on our instagram page, see here https://www.instagram.com/paulmcnallyarch/
The main entrance features an oak privacy screen which is double height, drawing the eye to the gallery level containing more bedrooms.
The home has a custom built garden room, which contains a home-office, made out of timber frame construction.
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