Architecture Factory Cork Institute of Technology

Architecture Factory Cork Institute of Technology
by Dr Marc O Riain

• Awarded April 15, 2014
• CLIENT: Department of Architecture, Cork Institute Of Technology
• 51.908

The Architecture Factory is a third level architectural education, learning and research space situated in a disused split-level warehouse in Cork, Ireland. The interior architectural intervention adapts used shipping containers into lecturer offices dividing the ground floor space into 7 open plan studios. These are divided from a new mezzanine structure by a wide boulevard which functions as a live lab, exhibition and making space. The mezzanine cantilevers over this space creating online learning facilities above seminar rooms, storage, photo labs and studios bookending the enclosures.