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The Irish Vernacular (new link, with construction details)
"This project belongs to the vernacular tradition. In this tradition, the knowledge of how to construct a house is held in common by a community. On this website you can download information and inspiration to help you to design and build your own house much like the one in the photo which cost a total of €25,000 to construct. It took me a total of 50 days to build, which I did over two years with the help of friends, family, neighbours and a few specialists.." Dominic Stevens B.Arch. MRIAI
"In rural Ireland, architect Dominic Stevens built his timber-framed house from scratch in 50 days – and for just 25,000 euros ($32,800). It has since become the flagship example of a self-build movement called Irish Vernacular" (BBC Worldwide).The Poundbury Project: A Model of Innovation (Financial Times, Ist November, 2013)
How the Poundbury project became a model for innovation
Ben Pentreath
Some quotes:
"For 20 years, the Prince of Wales’s housing scheme in Dorset has led the way on green energy and social housing...
Too often, the debate is not allowed to pass beyond the veneer of appearance. But under the surface, something revolutionary has been happening here, and it has little to do with architecture at all...
Waitrose opened last year in Queen Mother Square, which in 2015 will be completed with new apartment buildings, a tower, a hotel and restaurants, to form the long-term heart of the settlement...
This is the Poundbury paradox: clothed in historical trappings but deeply innovative at its core. The intellectual contradictions invoked are multiple, but are part of the zeitgeist...
It is impossible to find another housing estate built in the past quarter century that is as richly textured, as intricate, as convincing as a whole, and which is getting better not worse with age. Thousands of planners, architects, housebuilders, developers and government officials have now visited: from the UK, Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East. Only time will tell whether it is the radical, underlying complexities, or merely the surface veneer, that will prove more influential. I hope it will be the former, but fear the latter – and that would be missing the point".
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