Tigh Mojo
Caheratrant, Co. Kerry
Planning Granted 2026
In Construction
Caheratrant, Co. Kerry
Planning Granted 2026
In Construction
A 1990s beachfront bungalow is reworked through the addition of a single-storey extension, configured as a pair of interlocking mono-pitched volumes. The removal of an incongruous hexagonal conservatory rationalises the plan, redefines the building edge, and establishes a clearer datum in relation to the horizon.
The roofscape comprises two shallow, curving zinc-clad forms, their shell-like geometry catching the shifting coastal light and introducing a subtle sense of movement. The structure is set on a limestone plinth, profiled and detailed to register as a continuous stereotomic base. Its material behaviour is integral to the composition: the stone darkens under moisture, acquiring a surface sheen, and will weather progressively, reinforcing the building’s relationship to site. The resulting tectonic hierarchy: base, rendered wall, and metal roof articulates a language rooted in permanence and endurance.
Internally, the principal living space rises westwards towards the mountains and the setting sun, its ceiling plane lifting to draw the eye outward, framing sea, sky, and land as integral elements of the everyday interior experience rather than a distant backdrop.
The roofscape comprises two shallow, curving zinc-clad forms, their shell-like geometry catching the shifting coastal light and introducing a subtle sense of movement. The structure is set on a limestone plinth, profiled and detailed to register as a continuous stereotomic base. Its material behaviour is integral to the composition: the stone darkens under moisture, acquiring a surface sheen, and will weather progressively, reinforcing the building’s relationship to site. The resulting tectonic hierarchy: base, rendered wall, and metal roof articulates a language rooted in permanence and endurance.
Internally, the principal living space rises westwards towards the mountains and the setting sun, its ceiling plane lifting to draw the eye outward, framing sea, sky, and land as integral elements of the everyday interior experience rather than a distant backdrop.
An Tigín
Castlegregory, Co. Kerry
Planning Granted 2025
In Construction
Castlegregory, Co. Kerry
Planning Granted 2025
In Construction
A 1970s bungalow, nestled in a woodland by the sea on the Dingle Peninsula, will be transformed into a contemporary family home after lying dormant for over twenty years.
Kissing gables will define an entrance arcade, enhancing the sense of arrival from the north-east, while to the rear a south-facing courtyard will maximise solar gain, encourage passive ventilation, and improve outdoor amenity. The inward-facing typology defined by asymmetric gables will reflect the spatial composition and form typical of vernacular farm clusters, shaped by the need for collective shelter from prevailing Atlantic winds and a strong sense of enclosure.
To reduce demolition and construction waste, the original wet-dash rendered walls will be retained and repaired, preserving the understated, utilitarian character of the existing structure. A series of vaulted spaces will then be carefully grafted-on, with the junction between old and new celebrated through a change in surface texture. This horizontal datum—the moment where old and new are fused—will act as a chalk line, defining where openings will sit, rooflines will terminate, and gutters will extend, visually stitching the composition together while highlighting the dialogue between the original and the proposed.
Kissing gables will define an entrance arcade, enhancing the sense of arrival from the north-east, while to the rear a south-facing courtyard will maximise solar gain, encourage passive ventilation, and improve outdoor amenity. The inward-facing typology defined by asymmetric gables will reflect the spatial composition and form typical of vernacular farm clusters, shaped by the need for collective shelter from prevailing Atlantic winds and a strong sense of enclosure.
To reduce demolition and construction waste, the original wet-dash rendered walls will be retained and repaired, preserving the understated, utilitarian character of the existing structure. A series of vaulted spaces will then be carefully grafted-on, with the junction between old and new celebrated through a change in surface texture. This horizontal datum—the moment where old and new are fused—will act as a chalk line, defining where openings will sit, rooflines will terminate, and gutters will extend, visually stitching the composition together while highlighting the dialogue between the original and the proposed.
Filed under:
Bungalow, Renovation, Extension
Bungalow, Renovation, Extension
An Leabharlann
Caherbullig, Co. Kerry
Planning Granted 2024
In Construction
Caherbullig, Co. Kerry
Planning Granted 2024
In Construction
Drawing formal and material inspiration from the single-barrel-vaulted hay barns once commonplace in Kerry’s rural landscape, a new vaulted library is woven into the evolving fabric of a clachan on the slopes of Sliabh an Iolair, overlooking Ceann Trá.
These modest agricultural structures—typically roofed in corrugated steel and sited beside farmhouses—were once integral to everyday rural life. Though now largely absent from the land, their typology persists in the collective memory of the countryside. This side extension reinterprets the elemental form, reasserting its presence through a contemporary architectural language on a site where hay was once gathered into a coca féir.
A new sequence of naturally lit enfilades establishes layered sightlines from the house, through the library, and outward to the surrounding fields, linking Sliabh an Iolair, to the west with the Iveragh Peninsula to the east. The barrel-vaulted ceiling draws the eye upward, imbuing the interior with a calm, reverential atmosphere.
The material palette is deliberately restrained and tactile. Bespoke book shelves and plan chests, crafted from fallen oak, line the interior. A generous window seat, oriented toward sun, land, and sea, anchors the space as a place of introspection: a quiet observatory for the shifting rhythms of light and landscape.
These modest agricultural structures—typically roofed in corrugated steel and sited beside farmhouses—were once integral to everyday rural life. Though now largely absent from the land, their typology persists in the collective memory of the countryside. This side extension reinterprets the elemental form, reasserting its presence through a contemporary architectural language on a site where hay was once gathered into a coca féir.
A new sequence of naturally lit enfilades establishes layered sightlines from the house, through the library, and outward to the surrounding fields, linking Sliabh an Iolair, to the west with the Iveragh Peninsula to the east. The barrel-vaulted ceiling draws the eye upward, imbuing the interior with a calm, reverential atmosphere.
The material palette is deliberately restrained and tactile. Bespoke book shelves and plan chests, crafted from fallen oak, line the interior. A generous window seat, oriented toward sun, land, and sea, anchors the space as a place of introspection: a quiet observatory for the shifting rhythms of light and landscape.
North Hill
London Borough of Haringey
Planning Granted 2020
Completed 2023
London Borough of Haringey
Planning Granted 2020
Completed 2023
A two-storey rear extension creates a living room, a study and a master-suite overlooking the house’s long garden. The proposal aims to complement the defining characteristic of Walter Segal’s prefabricated, modular, timber-framed vernacular, and adopts his principles of efficient, lightweight, sustainable construction. Whilst celebrating a sensitive new layer of contemporary architecture to the iconic home.
The composition of the rear extension is derived from thorough analysis of the logic and layout of the original garden and house. The sequence of volumes is stacked and slipped both vertically and horizontally, graduating away from the main house, in order to preserve the reading of Segal’s original architecture; whilst at the same time crea
ting a new, and legible whole. The internal composition continues Segal’s original zig-zag route through the main house that reveals glimpses of each on-coming room as you walk through the interior.
The use of minimal repeated elements in the design is a key concept for the construction of the extension; from the structural components and interior lining, to the modulation of the cladding and envelope. To accommodate restricted site access, we developed a component-based construction system, whereby small elements can be brought in and assembled on site.
Externally, a timber veil of uniformly spaced timber battens that envelop the extension visually and structurally links with the timber palisades used in the original house to divide large windows. A textured concrete ribbon with high recycled content wraps the base of the extension to provide a plinth to the extension and protection between the timber structure and the ground.
Internally, a timber staircase and timber internal finishes offer a smooth, warm touch and a sense of security and comfort.
Project Collaborations:
From 2017 to 2023 Luke Matone worked as a project architect for Morris+Company Architects, leading the design to planning of the extension to Walter Segal’s seminal home in Highgate.
Model: William Guthrie
Model Photographs: Jack Hobhouse
The composition of the rear extension is derived from thorough analysis of the logic and layout of the original garden and house. The sequence of volumes is stacked and slipped both vertically and horizontally, graduating away from the main house, in order to preserve the reading of Segal’s original architecture; whilst at the same time crea
ting a new, and legible whole. The internal composition continues Segal’s original zig-zag route through the main house that reveals glimpses of each on-coming room as you walk through the interior.
The use of minimal repeated elements in the design is a key concept for the construction of the extension; from the structural components and interior lining, to the modulation of the cladding and envelope. To accommodate restricted site access, we developed a component-based construction system, whereby small elements can be brought in and assembled on site.
Externally, a timber veil of uniformly spaced timber battens that envelop the extension visually and structurally links with the timber palisades used in the original house to divide large windows. A textured concrete ribbon with high recycled content wraps the base of the extension to provide a plinth to the extension and protection between the timber structure and the ground.
Internally, a timber staircase and timber internal finishes offer a smooth, warm touch and a sense of security and comfort.
Project Collaborations:
From 2017 to 2023 Luke Matone worked as a project architect for Morris+Company Architects, leading the design to planning of the extension to Walter Segal’s seminal home in Highgate.
Model: William Guthrie
Model Photographs: Jack Hobhouse
Dick Mack’s Pub
Dingle, Co. Kerry
2022–2023
Dingle, Co. Kerry
2022–2023
Dick Mack’s Pub sought a sensitive reconfiguration and extension of its ‘back bar’ area. A new bar, additional seating, and upgraded toilet facilities were added. The brief was simple: honour the distinctive character of the historic front bar without imitation, establishing a complementary identity for the rear spaces that avoids pastiche.
The new layout and material palette take cues from the historic front bar, reinterpreted with subtle variation. Timber, used both pragmatically and expressively, becomes the unifying element throughout. It lines the walls to soften acoustics and introduce warmth and texture, while forming the fixed furniture: the bar counter, bar shelving, seating, doors and snugs. Existing routes through the pub were retained, and new ones were introduced to strengthen spatial and visual connections between adjoining rooms.
A key design move is the use of repetition as ornament. Along new walls, a veil of evenly spaced, CNC-machined solid oak battens wraps the interior like a continuous ribbon, aligned at a fixed datum. Below bar counter height, the battens remain square, flat and robust; above, they are scalloped, creating a shifting interplay of light and shadow. Doors puncture, while fluted glass partitions in the snugs provide softly diffused thresholds defining more intimate spaces.
Oak was chosen for its tactile warmth, longevity, and deeper cultural symbolism—long associated in Irish mythology with strength, wisdom, and resilience.
Other interventions reveal and celebrate the structure’s layered history. A thick layer of sand and cement render was deliberately removed from internal stone walls celebrate the original fabric. Construction idiosyncrasies were embraced: a lintel formed from a piece of the Dingle railway track was exposed, and original brick reveals, were preserved and sensitively restored.
To the rear, a single-storey extension replaces a former lean-to, creating a new room that opens onto the south-facing yard with views toward Dick Mack’s Brewery. Clad in locally sourced recycled stone, the extension responds directly to the exposed stone interiors and draws on the scale, materiality, and proportions of the pub’s Victorian-era fabric—ensuring the addition feels rooted, coherent, and respectful.
The new layout and material palette take cues from the historic front bar, reinterpreted with subtle variation. Timber, used both pragmatically and expressively, becomes the unifying element throughout. It lines the walls to soften acoustics and introduce warmth and texture, while forming the fixed furniture: the bar counter, bar shelving, seating, doors and snugs. Existing routes through the pub were retained, and new ones were introduced to strengthen spatial and visual connections between adjoining rooms.
A key design move is the use of repetition as ornament. Along new walls, a veil of evenly spaced, CNC-machined solid oak battens wraps the interior like a continuous ribbon, aligned at a fixed datum. Below bar counter height, the battens remain square, flat and robust; above, they are scalloped, creating a shifting interplay of light and shadow. Doors puncture, while fluted glass partitions in the snugs provide softly diffused thresholds defining more intimate spaces.
Oak was chosen for its tactile warmth, longevity, and deeper cultural symbolism—long associated in Irish mythology with strength, wisdom, and resilience.
Other interventions reveal and celebrate the structure’s layered history. A thick layer of sand and cement render was deliberately removed from internal stone walls celebrate the original fabric. Construction idiosyncrasies were embraced: a lintel formed from a piece of the Dingle railway track was exposed, and original brick reveals, were preserved and sensitively restored.
To the rear, a single-storey extension replaces a former lean-to, creating a new room that opens onto the south-facing yard with views toward Dick Mack’s Brewery. Clad in locally sourced recycled stone, the extension responds directly to the exposed stone interiors and draws on the scale, materiality, and proportions of the pub’s Victorian-era fabric—ensuring the addition feels rooted, coherent, and respectful.
