Wallers Well, Limerick

Commissioned by  Limerick City & County Council, PKA were the appointed design team lead for the Wallers Well infill housing development, part of the city authority’s strategy to regenerate the urban area with infill development on the city’s extensive number of vacant sites.

Located on a gap brownfield site, the principal objectives in the design of the 13-unit social housing scheme were to provide a high level of residential amenity for the occupants, and to create an element of infill ‘streetscape’ on one of the main approaches to the city centre.

The terrace fronting Roxboro Road consists of narrow-frontage two-storey units, each with two bedrooms. The second consists of wide-frontage units, also of two-bedrooms, that run the length of the site’s northern boundary.

The three-storey ‘hinge’ block contains two apartments: a one-bedroom, fully-accessible ground floor unit that sits below a two-bedroom duplex which has its bedrooms at first floor level, with an open-plan kitchen, dining and living room, and corner balcony, overhead.

Faced in brick to the Roxboro Road and render to the street behind, all units have distinctive two-storey porches and  corner windows to animate the elevation. Each has its own private back garden and a railed front yard - combining the need for security and sociability.

Client: Limerick City and County Council
Value: €2,900,000

Size: 13 units
Reference: Mr. Aidan Doyle, Design and Delivery, LCCC
Design: 2017
Completion: 2020