CUArch – Travis Price Architects // Spirit of Place Spirit of Design
Belmullet, Ireland // January – July 2007
This project was one in a series of small scale follies in rural or picturesque settings, each designed during a semester long course and constructed in a two week window during the summer. The projects research local spiritual phenomena and explore them as concepts for architectural form. The concept behind this park folly was the Gaelic “thin places” – where the past, present and future meet.
This project provided a rest area and shelter in a public park in Belmullet, a small town on the west coast of Ireland. The stainless steel columns represent the progression of time from past to the future reaching out to tidal waters. These columns compress around the shelter, a stone and glass cube caught and turned to face Achill Island and the Atlantic Ocean, in a nod to the role Belmullet played as embarkment point for many Irish fleeing the Great Famine.
Adam Achrati 