Members of the Matrix Partnership team took a lead role on the landscape-led regeneration framework for the Poolbeg peninsula in Dublin.

Linking the city centre within walking distance to the Irish Sea, the peninsula terminates with a lighthouse on the causeway of Great South Wall, marking a threshold to the city of Dublin. It is the place where for centuries people have arrived at or departed from Ireland.

 

A proposed plan for Poolbeg uniquely embraces several components which are essential for the life of the city, ranging from energy generation and water treatment to commercial exchange, domestic habitation and recreation. The whole is placed within a landscape plan containing five principal spatial types each with a specific character and purpose. Taking its cue from ‘The Third Alignment’, the new composition for Poolbeg responds to four axes whose character exemplifies the underlying geometric structure of the peninsula. Work included a fully costed implementation plan for the entire proposed urban infrastructure.