Box Architecture

Building Design Ireland, March 17, 2000

Box Architecture, which was formed in 1997 by Gary Mongey and David Dwyer, concentrates mainly domestic works, commercial work and industrial fit-outs.

This conversion of a garage at Dun Laoghaire into a living space makes a physical link to the external environment by extending the horizontal plane of the ceiling beyond the enclosure and by continuing the floor plane to the exterior. Light penetration is manipulated throughout the day by the strategic placement of planes to create what the architects hope will be a "light time clock".

The project, which won the under £200,000 category in the Opus Building of Year Awards and a special mention in the AAI Awards 1999, is typical of the practice's interest in developing a relationship between the built form and nature.