MTU Crawford College of Art & Design | Cork, Ireland

Our vision for the Bishop’s Garden site is to form an expanded idea of urban space. It is a type of soft-urbanism – what Sorkin might refer to as “loose fit” space - where the site is configured as a series of evolving liminal fields that mediate and connect art-based learning activities and changing temporal environments. What it produces is a new material aesthetic between architecture and nature – spaces and species that reflexively develop across multiple scales and construct the site as a living sensorium. The physical and visual references for this proposal relate to distinct characteristics of the site and wider urban and artistic influences. On one hand, the predominant material reddened ochre-colour palette adopted for the proposal relates to the coloration and tone of the brick used on the existing MTU College of Art & Design building on Sharman Crawford Street.