The Loom Cork Street
The Loom provides a fully-managed 166-bed student residence with an active ground floor and a defined urban frontage to Cork Street and Brickfield Lane.
Run by Aparto, the development is located on the corner of Cork Street and Brickfield Lane, Dublin 8. Social spaces activate the ground floor facing Cork St, and a residential cluster provides passive surveillance to Brickfield Lane.A south-facing podium courtyard, visible from Cork Street, provides amenity to the students and separation between the new building and the existing adjacent housing. Setbacks at the fifth and sixth floor level prevent overshadowing of the podium amenity space and minimise impact on adjacent housing, while providing student residents with further outdoor amenity spaces in the form of roof terraces.
L-shaped, the building hugs the northwest corner of the site, creating an urban edge to the streets and enclosing a sheltered, sunny amenity space. The building’s massing mediates between the existing residential blocks to the south and east and the new seven-storey student housing complex to the west on Cork St. The stepped terraces created by these set-backs provide visual amenity to neighbours at high level and are oriented for maximum sunlight exposure.
