Groupwork ‘Both conceptual and tangible, these ‘alternative’ arrangements’ mirror the richness, controversy and…
Unit 01: Alternative Arrangements
Tutors: Michael Corr & Tom Keeley
Alternative Arrangements looks closely at the town of Clones, County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The town lies very close to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Its sinuous route runs 310 miles from Lough Foyle to the Irish Sea dividing the six counties of Northern Ireland from what is now the Republic since 1921, and soon the UK from the EU.
This unit is seen from within the context of Brexit, but it is not about Brexit. It is situated in a border town, but it is not just about borders. It is specifically about Clones: what makes this town what it is, and what research-led architecture can do to build upon these histories – official and unofficial – and what approaches you can bring to draw out these stories. Conceptually, practically and methodologically it is interested in the role of architecture when used as a lens for examining politics, culture, and society.
The unit takes its name from the text of the Brady Amendment of the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement for an alternative to the so-called Irish backstop. The amendment to the legislation argues there should be ‘alternative arrangements’ for controlling goods across the border apart from physical infrastructure. Here, the emphasis is shifted, creating an ‘alternative arrangement’ of sites, histories, archival sources, key dates, and specific architectures and geographies, that inform the design of buildings and spaces
Kristiana Ustuba
Lace/Place Clones, a border town in Ireland, a small knot on the edge…
Oana-Theodora Stefan
in Alter(n)ation, a theatre Presenting the traveller with a peculiar theatrically, the site…
Dora Pelczer
The Diamond, Clones – Post Office and Community Centre The main square of…
Ben Glazebrook
The All-Ireland Centre for Gaelic Heritage Amongst the uncertainty of Brexit my project,…
Dominica Piatek
The Center for Border and Landscape Interpretation The Center for Border and Landscape…
Alexander McCormick
A place for the storage and preservation of Irish oral history projects from the Troubles and a place for future visitors to deposit stories they deem relevant, adding to Ireland’s historic spoken word tradition
Christina Hristova
Clones Cinema Club Clones is a small town, located in West County Monaghan,…
Jem Doktor
My project was the design of a vehicle depot on the outskirts of…
Iris Hansen
From a train station to a metal fabrication school – an alternative arrangement for the site of Alpha Tanks
Hannah Spiers
Language and Landscape Centre ‘The parochial can articulate the universal’ The ancient town…
Isabella Laffeaty
Kilroosky Community Pool
Ana Moldovan
Appropriately for the Alternative Arrangements unit, my project is about picking Clones apart and putting the elements back together in a new way in an effort to appreciate things for what they are.
Ana-Maria Tirlea
Clones Centre for Alternative Heritage is a subdivided and scattered Cultural Centre that consists of 3 edifices: the main building, the Café and the Bus Stop. This cultural centre celebrates the commonplace, the ordinary and the vernacular, stressing the characteristics of what is local to Clones.