Irish City Village

The Ranelagh Main Street has transformed from a space of gathering and lingering, to a thoroughfare for residents and commuters travelling from work to their suburban homes. The names of bars, bistros, and cafés are now the last echo of the green-grocers, bakers, and butchers that were the life blood of small village communities.
The grain of Ranelagh branches out from the Main Street which connects the City Centre to the newer suburbs of the south. This creates a linear form of traffic which does not lend itself to circulation, nor public gathering.
The Triangle exists as an architectural intervention to the Main Street which provides the otherwise absent public space. The name is a play on the established town square, acknowledging the small space allocated to the public in the dense grain of the village. It also harkens to the traditional rural Irish village convention of the Diamond Town.