Clontarf Pumphouse

This pumphouse has a distinctive sculptural form on the Clontarf sea front. A new, folded-plate structure of reinforced concrete was poured onto the existing two-storey basement of a dilapidated pumphouse. The volume is rotated to catch the light and open relationships with the surroundings. Its continous, pre-patinated, copper shingle skin is eroded to the east allowing the gathered rain waters to discharge over and stain the shot-blasted concrete (text from Openhouse Dublin 2009).