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架构师提供的文本描述。这座建筑是罗莎公镇艾比街一栋独立联排别墅的扩建和翻新。它为名为VitaHouse的整体咨询中心和更广泛的社区提供咨询室和大型会议厅。

Text description provided by the architects. The building is an extension and renovation of a detached townhouse on Abbey Street in Roscommon town. It provides counseling rooms and a large meeting hall for the holistic counseling center called Vita House and the broader community.

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该遗址高度敏感，因为它俯瞰该镇的主要教堂，圣心大教堂，而现有的建筑是一个建筑保护区的一部分。这种设计源于客户希望创造一个和平的欢迎场所，这可以成为社区生活的中心部分。

The site is highly sensitive as it overlooks the town’s primary church, the Sacred Heart Cathedral, while the existing building is part of an architectural conservation area. The design arises from the client’s desire to create a peaceful welcoming place which can be a central part of community life.

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因此，这一设计寻求成为一个“好邻居”，部分灵感来自于道路上简单的倾斜屋顶和长方形窗户，以及都柏林城市议会大厦(City Assembly House)等18世纪的建筑，这些建筑在朴素的外表背后包含着各种意想不到的空间。

The design, therefore, seeks to be a ‘good neighbor’, inspired in part by the simple pitched roofs and rectangular windows on the road as well as by 18th-century buildings like the City Assembly House in Dublin which contain a variety of unexpected spaces behind modest exteriors.

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保留的外部允许教会继续支配周围的环境，并依赖微妙的构造细节和不对称的丰富。简单的体积掩盖了各种房间，其中包括一个大的会议空间，其圆顶天花板和宁静的气氛暗示着宗教协会的客户组织和邻近的教区教堂。

The reserved exterior allows the church to continue to dominate the surroundings and relies on subtle tectonic details and asymmetries for richness. The simple volume belies the various rooms within including a large meeting space whose domed ceiling and serene atmosphere allude to the religious associations of the client organization and the neighboring parish church.

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Architects Ryan W. Kennihan Architects

Location Abbey St, Ballypheasan, Roscommon, Ireland

Lead Architects Ryan Kennihan, Ronan Costelloe

Project Year 2013

Photographs Alice Clancy

Category Renovation