The Village. Cloughjordan Co. Tipperary
The Village is Ireland’s first purpose designed Sustainable
Community. It develops a third of the site as a built community and
sets aside the remainder as an organic farm and woodland reserve. The
community (of 500 people), is designed to knit itself into the streetscape
of the existing village and features solar planning, creation of a new
stream, extensive landscape and habitat creation innovative attitudes
to street making, traffic management and the inclusion by design of
community gardens, recycling facilities and low energy or renewable
services and infrastructure. Natural water drainage systems and wastewater
treatment by constructed wetlands complete the link with the sites underlying
ecology.
Designed in collaboration with SPIL and Sally Starbuck
Status: Infrastructure construction March-Dec 2007,
Houses 2008'.