Ard na Rí
The Ard na Rí group proposed a series of pedestrian walkways through Sion Hill overlooking the city of Waterford. People coming from the city or the train can reach the top of the hill through a new pedestrian lift joining the new hillside routes. They also intend to reinvigorate the barren landscape by planting wildflowers and gorse.
Andries Burger investigated and assessed today’s hyper-connected workplace, its relation to the worker, society and place while exploring its built physicality. The project proposed a research and test facility primarily for automated aerial vehicles. The building produced overlapping human and machine spaces, with the human space containing spacial occasions for idleness, contemplation and reflection.
The development of a National Conservation Zone for the Irish Honey Bee was central to Ailbhe Cunningham’s thesis. She approaches the workplace as a series of interrelated and integrated ecological, cultural and economic tasks. The project uses he existing structure of a former hotel on Sion Hill showing suitable and significant workplaces could be established within overlooked and abandoned structures.
Fiona Muldowney was interested in the experience of landscape and architecture and the relationship between the two. the project needed to be sympathetic towards the landscape yet have the ability to be durable. In Waterford the landscape has the opportunity to become a place of refuge for the city.