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© Peter Molloy 2021
Exhibition
Client: Irish Architecture Foundation as part of bi-annual Momentum series
Dates: July - August 2021
Category: Drawing and Exhibition
Collaborators: Space Forms (frame construction) and Dónal Ó’Cionnfhaolaidh
All photos on this page copyright of Peter Molloy Photography 2021
The research for this project was supported by the Arts Council, Ireland
Awarded an AAI Special Mention Award 2022
The minimum requirements for rented private dwellings in Ireland are set out in the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2019. In it, the state also defines the basic amenities that should be provided for any tenant, which include a sink, hob, microwave, kitchen storage, fridge, radiator and separate bathroom. The physical manifestation of both this and previous versions of this law in Ireland has traditionally been the bedsit typology; a one-room studio apartment, often located within an existing house, where what was once a single room in a home becomes a single home in a room.
This exhibition presents the results of one year of research conducted from August 2019 to August 2020, in which online property rental platforms were used to study the typology of bedsits in Dublin city. These platforms rarely (if ever) include plans of these spaces, and so the true size and layout of these rooms was identified by using our knowledge of the standardised sizes of things (beds, chairs, doors, ovens) to piece together the plans of 52 bedsits for rent in Dublin city last year.
Object scan - plattenbaustudio