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A Holiday House on Ireland’s Rugged Sea Coast

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This seaside cottage on Ireland’s east coast by Dublin studio A2 Architects is intended for year-round use.

The house is made of two volumes, clad in untreated douglas fir, that rest on a cast concrete platform. Green grass roofs shield the interior from harsh weather, and visually connect the house into the patchwork of potato fields behind it.

Large windows front and back open out to the sea in front, and to potato fields in the back. Radiant underfloor heating and super-tight insulation make the house comfortable for winter holidays as well as summer.

In the back of the house, a sheltered evening terrace enjoys west sun and views of the horizon through the living room.

Running down the center of the house, a light-box corridor skylight connects the two wooden halves, separated into public and private.

A cast terrazzo fireplace anchors the extremely minimal interior of one side, simply one large living and dining space. Clerestory windows bring reflected a cool light into the timber lined space.

The other side houses the bedrooms, bathrooms and the kitchen. A cool light – the color of sea glass – is filtered down into the house through the central corridor skylight.

Shown here with no furniture, the interior is quite stark. But this brisk palette of materials – terrazzo, concrete, douglas fir – makes for easy cleaning and holidays where sandy feet are no problem.

The colors of the sea are subtly played throughout the house.

Via Dezeen