Walking on the Ruin

YAC Competition

Year: 2022
Location: Kells, Ireland
Project type: YAC Competition
Focus: Architecture / Adaptive Reuse / Culture

The project reimagines the ruins of Kells Priory as a contemporary art cathedral, combining a chapel, exhibition spaces, artist studios and performance areas while preserving the atmosphere of the historic ruin.

Main entrance to the monastery ruins with a transparent exhibition hall and elevated red walkway.

Distant landscape view, historical collage and timeline, and maps locating Kells Priory in its rural setting.

Plan of the monastery ruins showing the chapel, exhibition spaces, auditorium and elevated circulation.

Exploded programme axonometric, chapel and exhibition interiors, elevations and a long section through the ruins.

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