Built Sanctuaries & Spatial Designs
My architectural practice focuses on small-scale, deeply personal, and light-footprint living. I prioritise working with clean energy exchange and designing for real human lives.
- The Light-Filled Extension (Co. Cork, 2005): A beautiful, bespoke domestic extension designed to maximize natural light and somatic spatial flow within my own living space. (Show your photos and sketches here)
- The Cabin Layout Studies (2025): Simple, elegant pencil line layout drawings created for friends to unlock the spatial potential and modular efficiency of a new timber cabin.
- The Mayo Tiny House Project (Current): Ongoing sketch design drawings for a highly efficient, low-budget modular tiny home, proving that sustainable design should be a democratic right, not a luxury.
- Balgue Community Centre (Nicaragua, 2008): Conceptual design and layout sketches for a rural community hub, blending local climate considerations with participatory design principles.
- Eco-Village & Circular Studies (Global, 2016-2018): A two-year immersion across European and South American intentional communities, mapping out low-impact housing layouts and permaculture systems.
Immersive Spatial Installations
I use physical materials and suspended structures to explore how volume, simplicity, and scale alter the emotional resonance of a room.
- Home/Sick (Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, 2015): A major spatial installation in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity, consisting of 150 small, hand-crafted cardboard houses suspended in space to challenge our perceptions of shelter and vulnerability.
- “I Am No Thing” (Solo Exhibition, 2015): A deeply meditative installation featuring hundreds of fragile, 120mm x 120mm squares of paper, each suspended by a single piece of string. A work that took weeks of patient crafting to achieve a state of pure, weightless simplicity.
- The Tree of Life (Malahide Community Centre, Dublin, 2015): A permanent, public bronze sculpture installation designed to anchor a shared civic space with a sense of growth, connection, and organic form.
The Process of Making
For me, creation is a daily practice of grounding. I work exclusively with raw, natural textures and fluid watercolours—not to sell as commodities, but to listen to the earth.
- The Daily Watercolour Practice (2020-2021): A year of daily watercolours painted during a time of global lockdown. This deep immersion in colour and isolation became my internal compass, ultimately guiding me to relocate permanently to the Beara Peninsula.
- The Circle Series (2016): A collection of intuitive watercolour studies exploring geometry and organic flow, which funded my global eco-village research through authentic energy exchanges.
- The Beara Outside Bench (2026): A raw, sculptural timber bench hand-crafted for the outdoors, blending practical utility with heavy, natural form.
- Natural Fibre Art (Ongoing): Current explorations in working with local, raw plant and animal fibres to create tactile, grounding wall pieces that bring the texture of the landscape indoors.