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An Gairdin
Portumna.
Co Galway.

A feasibility study to create a centre of excellence in the practise of sustainable living. The centre is to include an existing mature organic garden and seeks to establish teaching spaces, organic cooking facilities with cafe and demonstrate sustainable technologies.

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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'.

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Airfield Trust:

Masterplan for the transformation of big house and estate into an educational and ecological centre based on experience of nature. Solearth led a team of designers engineers ecologists and cost/economic consultants to evaluate current physical, ecological, and business operations to develop a site specific vision for the estate. The plan would re-organise current cultural and amenity facilities on the site, enhancing and improving them, provide extensive areas of new habitats (tuned to the national educational syllabus), increase the sensoriality, delight and ecological diversity of the estate and ensure that Airfield thrives in the future as a resource for coming generations.

Status: Introduction of new habitats; 2008

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Nature Station
Ballybay, Co. Monaghan.

An ecological masterplan addressing potential appropriate regeneration of farmland and wetlands as a demonstration organic farm and nature reserve.

Status: Masterplan completed 2002