Architecture for everyday life.
I’m Richard Barrett, an architect based in Cork and the founder of SPÁS studio. I begin with the ordinary moments that make a home: sharing a meal, finding a quiet corner, opening a room to the garden.
Cúirt · Unbuilt studio concept
A personal way of working.
Bespoke begins with listening.
Your household and your place set the brief—not a predetermined style or a plan to repeat. We explore what matters, compare possibilities and refine the relationships between rooms, light, privacy and landscape.
The whole home. The smallest edge.
A useful threshold can become a place to sit. A change in ceiling can give a shared room its character. A deep opening can offer daylight and shelter. The architectural idea carries through into the surfaces and details you live with.
Ideas made visible.
Teach explores the whole house; Seomraí looks closely at the rooms within. These unbuilt studio studies open a conversation about possibilities—not completed commissions or ready-made designs.
The current service is brief and concept design. Scope, outputs, fees and responsibilities are agreed before work begins; later stages are separately agreed.