The project comprises the reconfiguration of the urban spaces in the Waterford Viking Triangle one of the oldest and most significant urban quarters in the country. Its public buildings and historical monuments give a strong physical and symbolic importance to these urban spaces. However, the poor quality of the public domain in terms of landscaping, street furniture, signage and services were all damaging and undermining the architectural, historical and civic identity. It had become a place for cars rather than for people.
The project seeks to understand the underused public spaces of the Triangle, unify them and to consolidate their public function as civic meeting places for the city. The project is a constructed landscape; it makes background rather than building-as-object, a continuous condition in which old and new elements and materials combine to underscore diverse individual and collective inhabitation.
