Laneway Wall Garden House, Portobello, Ireland. Architect: Donaghy + Dimond, 2011. View from courtyard showing steps to back doo

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Aim to create a set of new accommodation around a courtyard garden; achieved by recasting the boundary/retaining wall to the rear laneway and reinstating/splicing in the familiar domestic forms of lean-to and covered yard. Two roof forms define the arrangement connected by an eaves box beam/valley gutter that collects all rainwater from the back of the house and diverts it to a cast concrete cistern.

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