"Lessons learned from existing buildings" will be the topic of the third session of Day 2 of the Dublin event. The 2-day event will showcase expert speakers sharing innovative strategies for activating urban spaces and increasing participation in sport as well as discussing solutions for the future of the industry. Together on the road to decarbonisation and sustainability!
Meet speakers Valerie Mulvin and Frank Cooney and scroll down to have a look at the best practices they will be presenting on the 3rd of October.
Day two will take place at the world-class Aviva Stadium and will include a stadium tour.
Speakers and more details: Programme
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Designing for sport: Printing House Square
Valerie Mulvin, Director, McCullough Mulvin Architects
Printing House Square is the first new square to be built in the historic Trinity College Campus in 200 years. Its dramatic courtyard form provides student accommodation, health and disability services, along with state-of-the-art sports facilities including Squash, GAA Handball, Racquet Ball and Olympic Target Shooting. This project answers the challenge of how to sustainably provide international-level sports facilities for the modern student body without sacrificing our built heritage.
Meet Valerie Mulvin
Valerie Mulvin is the co-founder of McCullough Mulvin Architects and a member of Aosdána. Based in Dublin, the focus of the practice is on the design of sustainable cultural, educational and civic buildings, with a dynamic synergy of interest in innovative contemporary architecture, place, and history.
GAA Centre of Excellence, Meath
Frank Cooney, Director, Cooney Architects
Frank Cooney will speak about The Meath GAA Centre of Excellence and where it sits on the timeline of Cooney Architects’ evolving response to achieving truly sustainable buildings and places. This timeline commenced in 1991 when Frank Cooney was a project architect for a prototype EU sponsored ‘green building’. Our most recent project is a BREEAM outstanding naturally ventilated, naturally lit, wooden building located on a brown field site where we are applying green public procurement.
Meet Frank Cooney
In 1995, when Patricia McCaffrey and Frank Cooney established Cooney Architects, they began by asking “what type of architecture practice do we want to be ? What’s the purpose and the value of the work we’re going to do ? How do we work with people who share our values?”
At several points along the journey they’ve asked again those apparently ‘simple’ questions . Cooney Architect’s answers continue to come back to a few principles and aspirations that are at the heart of what we do. Each month we meet as a team and review their progress under the headings of Art, Human, Learnings and Enough. Frank believes Architecture has a fundamental role in creating and renewing communities, that they become truly sustainable –environmental, financial, social, health, equity, beauty and every other sense of that word.
A new whole life carbon roadmap for sports buildings
Aisling Cleary, Associate, FaulknerBrowns Architects
The unique energy profile of leisure centres is a key focus for local authorities, operators and designers in the journey towards decarbonisation. Drawing on FaulknerBrowns' 50+ years' research and delivery of this typology, Aisling will present findings that challenge current industry thinking and look towards a new blueprint for the future of sustainable sports buildings.
Meet Aisling Cleary
She is an associate architect with FaulknerBrowns Architects. Aisling worked in New York, Dublin and Amsterdam before joining FaulknerBrowns in 2021 to assist in establishing the Dublin studio. Aisling has ten years of experience in designing innovative buildings with a focus on sustainability, and is currently leading a number of high-profile sports projects for local authorities and government agencies in Dublin.
A tutor and examiner at TU Dublin, Aisling is an advocate for design that supports healthier cities and communities.
