Cherrywood Housing

Dan J on April 9, 2023

Just outside of Dublin, Ireland, MRY was one of just a handful of elite design firms selected from around the globe by the development team of Hines to bring a new, multi-phased, mixed-use community to life. The project led by the firm in the new community of Cherrywood is a 212-unit rental housing development, coined The Barrington.

Situated adjacent to a lightrail line, The Barrington delivered much-needed housing to the greater Dublin region. At the building’s exterior edge, The Barrington’s perimeter conforms to the newly created urban grid while the interior open space offers a surprise as visitors arrive into animated courtyards with diverse scales and massing. The irregularly shaped courtyards echo those found in historic Dublin and is designed to maximize daylight into apartments and capture early morning and late afternoon light. The individual residences are each individually designed to offer unique vistas out onto the nearby Irish countryside and surrounding community of Cherrywood.

Centered on the western side is the residents’ entry lobby with direct access to amenities on the upper floors. Amenities at the property include a lounge, a fitness center with sauna, an entertainment room, a children’s playroom, a co-working space, a playground, and BBQ areas.

North Orange Continuing Education FMP

Dan J on April 9, 2023

The North Orange Continuing Education (NOCE) Facilities Master Plan sets the stage for transformative new projects designed to revitalize existing facilities and dramatically enhance the system’s three main campus locations at Anaheim, Cypress College, and Fullerton College.

A key recommendation from the plan aims to transform a former multi-story healthcare facility designed around vehicular and ambulatory access, into a vibrant pedestrian-scaled garden campus for continuing education at the Anaheim campus. The plan for this facility creates a range of multi-tiered interior and exterior spaces that expand the public realm and cultivate a greater sense of campus community as the “Green Heart.” Interior and exterior environments are planned to connect through social stairs and garden terraces, expanding student program capacity and flexibility for exterior collaboration and congregation.

Parking areas are planned to generate energy via photovoltaic array shade canopies, providing safe and accessible covered connections across campus. At the core, the new Green Heart is positioned at the nexus between key site and building entrances, food service, vertical circulation within the building, and a new public transit hub. Each element together strengthens campus identity and wayfinding in service to the newly enhanced pedestrian experience.

Fullerton College Facilities Master Plan

Dan J on April 9, 2023

The Facilities Master Plan for Fullerton College in California seeks to revitalize the school’s institutional identity at the seams between campus and community, creating new gateway districts for student life and community participation. A campus bisected by a city street and characterized by service-access at its campus perimeter, is re-imagined as a new, more welcoming urban-facing campus, decidedly more student and community focused at its perimeter, with visible connections to its historic core.

A Welcome Center, Mobility Hub, and Performing Arts District are planned to anchor the new campus gateways along the campus’ southern perimeter. Critical student-serving programs for student government, student clubs, Veteran students, and other organizations redefine this edge and provide key elements of a vibrant co-curricular, urban college.

The Facilities Master Plan connects existing and proposed campus programs and spaces throughout its 83-acre campus with a new “Green Spine,” an enhanced north-south promenade extending from one of the new gateways into the campus core. The plan also creates an improved wayfinding network, with safer and more accessible spaces for students, faculty, staff, and members of the community to engage with one another outdoors.

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