The Operations and Maintenance depot at Ballyogan provides an integrated facility for Council services in the field of maintenance and environmental services. It is located at the edge of the former Ballyogan waste tip-head that previously served the Dublin County region. The facility comprises a new three storey office building, a maintenance/salt storage utility building, and vehicle and storage yards.

The site plan is organised to address the future public park while also providing secure working yard areas. To achieve this office building is placed facing the park with its own public entrance.

The office building's structure is mass timber with larch glue-laminated columns and beams, and spruce cross laminated floor slabs. The building is passively designed and naturally ventilated. The maintenance building is a hybrid structure of insitu concrete and timber, and forms the edge of the 2.4 hectare service yard into extruded enclosures. The yard is used to park maintenance vehicles and also functions as a material storage and disposal facility.

With Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Architects Department

Photography : Michael Moran

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office space with berlin desk workstations

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south facade from west

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opening vents, north facade office building

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sliding south facade, office space

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south facade, office building

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corner detail, south facade, office building

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main entrance office building

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canteen, office building

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north facade, office building

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storage utility building

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storage and utility building, clerestory glazing above concrete wall

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office building and storage utility building east elevation

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east elevation, space between storage and utility building and office building

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south facade storage and utility building

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storage and utility building, typical bay

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berlin desk workstation

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fire stairs

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office with pivot vent