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Elm Park Green Urban Quarter is a transformative mixed-use urban development comprising 100,000 m² situated on 8 hectares in Dublin. This new type of urban development represents a dense, environmentally renewing city—a unified, functionally diverse environment composed of buildings, landscape, place, and energy. The project demonstrates a holistic approach to contemporary urban design where landscape facilitates movement, creates connections between activities and people, and provides spaces for people to live, work, and have leisure time.

Design Philosophy & Urban Strategy

This project embodies a new paradigm in urban development—a dense, environmentally renewing city that prioritises both functionality and sustainability. The unified design creates a continuous flow of life, with a rich mix of uses ensuring a vibrant 24-hour ebb and flow of activity on the site.

Built Form & Orientation

Buildings are strategically oriented along the north-south axis to maximise the use of passive energy systems and create clear east and west elevations. This orientation provides maximum constant daylight in the morning and afternoon while opening the site to spectacular views of the Dublin Mountains and the Irish Sea—the natural landscape that defines Dublin.  All buildings feature compact footprints, minimising their impact on the ground plane while maintaining connections with the surrounding seaside and mountain lands

The development includes:

Public Park (7-acre landscaped garden with restaurants, cafés, and performance spaces), Four Office Buildings (50,000 m²), Leisure Centre, Conference Centre, Day Care Centre, Two Apartment Buildings (322 apartments), Senior Citizen Housing (100 units for Dublin City Council), Restaurants, cafés, retail, and outdoor performance venues

Area: 100,000 m2

Photography : Michael Moran

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View along west facade and canopy

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view from north of office buildings

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novartis office building, south and east elevations, conference centre

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west facade office building, sloped landscape and canopy

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east facade and atrium, office building, canopy in landscape

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east facade, hotel and hospital building

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view from sea shore to south, north facade hotel and hospital
 

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west facade, hotel and hospital

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west facade hotel and hospital, canopy in landscape

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view to south across landscape, canopy, east facade office building
 

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south facade office building

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detail, west facade office building

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detail, west facade office building

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detail, west facade office building

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detail, east facade office building

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thin atrium office building, interior

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thin atrium office building

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office building interior

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detail, west facade office building
 

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detail, canopy

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residential building, leisure centre and swimming pool, the bay, west facade
 

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south facade residential building, the links, west facade residential building, the bay, with swimming pool in between.

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above roof gardens of the residential building, the bay, and west facade office building
 

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winter garden, office building

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east facade and entrances, residential building, the bay
 

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ventilation and light opening to basement parking under office building

Fig. 27
project overview, axonometric diagram

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horticultural layer

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energy strategy

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uses of buildings