Spaces for living

Bespoke homes and thoughtful changes to existing houses, shaped around people and place.

Concept view of a limestone courtyard house with a deep oak dining threshold, high privacy windows and an inhabited planted court
CÚIRT-01 · An open garden edge · Concept visualisation

Selected house study

Teach Cúirt

A home gathered around a private outdoor room.

An open garden edge connects dining, shelter and planted space. Explore two ways of shaping a courtyard home.

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Tithe

House studies

Four families. Eight design studies. Each begins with a different relationship between people, rooms and place.

A dark timber long house with dining beside an outdoor oak-lined covered gable

Compact homes

Teach Tí

Explore →Concept view of a limestone L-shaped courtyard house with an oak dining threshold and three high privacy windows

Courtyard homes

Teach Cúirt

Explore →Three brick gabled room groups and enclosed links around a family garden

Family homes

Teach Teaghlaigh

Explore →A bronze-clad extension with an indoor window seat facing a retained house window across an open pocket

Extensions and remodelling

Teach Leathnú

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Unbuilt architectural studies, not off-the-shelf house designs.

Seomraí. The rooms within.

Bespoke design is felt at every scale—from the way a home meets its site to how an island serves a table.

Atmospheric concept of an island serving a dining table and living space, with smoked oak joinery and daylight above a lower kitchen ceiling.
Kitchen · The serving threshold · Concept visualisation

A personal approach. A considered process.

SPÁS studio is led by Richard Barrett, an architect based in Cork. Each project starts with the life it needs to hold, then develops through plans, sections, material studies and discussion.

Architect-led AI exploration helps test visual possibilities. Drawings, judgement and project-specific checks guide what moves forward.

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