有一天，Clonmacnoise的修道士们正在教堂开会。正当商议的时候，他们看见一艘船从他们头顶飞过，就像在海上航行一样。而船上的人也看到地上的人们与他们的居所，于是就下了锚。锚正好落在教堂的地板上，被牧师抓住。有一个人跟着锚从船上下来，他像在水中一样游着，一直游到锚那儿。地上的人们把他拖下了来。“看在上帝的份上，让我走吧!” 他说，“你们就要把我淹死了。”然后他像刚才一样在空中游着，带着锚离开了他们。

One day the monks of Clonmacnoise were holding a meeting on the floor of the church, and as they were at their deliberations there they saw a ship sailing over them in the air, going as it were on the sea. When the crew of the ship saw the meeting and the inhabited space below them, they dropped anchor, and the anchor came right down on to the floor of the church, and the priest seized it. A man came down out of the ship after the anchor, and he was swimming as if he were in the water, till he reached the anchor; and they were dragging him down then. ‘For Gods Sake let me go!’ said he, ‘for you are drowning me.’ then he left them, swimming in the air as before, taking his anchor with him.

▼项目外观， appearance of the project © Aisling McCoy

霍利布鲁克路（Hollybrook Road）位于都柏林郊区。项目内容包括翻新一幢维多利亚式住宅的底层，并扩建出厨房和用餐区。项目的业主是一个年轻的家庭，设计旨在反映出他们的日常生活和他们对创造美好事物的渴望。

Hollybrook Road is in a suburb of Dublin. The project involved refurbishing the ground floor return of a Victorian house and making an extension that would incorporate a kitchen and dining area for a young family that would reflect their life and their aspiration toward making something beautiful.

▼轴测分析图，axonometric diagram © Aisling McCoy

设计意图从项目之初就极为明确，即从前门到后花园，形成一系列不同而连续的室内空间，将房子的新旧部分连接在一起。厨房与用餐区从主屋向后延伸，新旧部分之间由六级宽大的石灰石台阶衔接起来。原建筑的回廊形成新旧部分之间的过渡区域，区域中设有一个隐藏式卫生间以及实用功能空间。新扩建部分由钢筋混凝土建造，外部则采用了绝缘材料饰面。

The project from the outset had a clear intent to make a series of distinct sequential interior spaces from the front door to the rear garden that knitted the old and new parts of the house together. The pantry area drops from the main house in 6 generous limestone steps . This room containing a hidden WC and utility area beneath the existing return and the new extension are built in reinforced concrete and wrapped in external insulation.

▼原建筑的回廊形成新旧部分之间的过渡区域， The existing return forms a transition area between the old and new parts © Aisling McCoy

▼回廊上的飘窗形成舒适的休闲区， The bay Windows on the cloister form a comfortable leisure area © Aisling McCoy