The Village
Sandymount Road & Marine Road Drive Junction
CALMING THE ARRIVAL
This project is designed to create a high quality civic space at one of the key entrances to the village - where Marine Drive and Sandymount Road meet. It would enhance the road and path surfaces, create traffic calming, more attractive dwelling areas, improved greenery, and improved accessibility facilities.
The intersection of Marine Drive and Sandymount Road is a key threshold to Sandymount Village. It marks the beginning of the commercial centre of Sandymount within the broader residential territory. Creating a palpable transition in the surface finish and quality of the ground surface would mark this threshold. This has the psychological effect of announcing the village as a space of pedestrian priority, where traffic is calmed and as a civic space rather than a transitory route for traffic. It consolidates and intensifies the character and delineates the perimeter of the Village.
Historical photographs showing the original proximity between the Church and the waterfront which was then at the end of Leahy’s Terrace (water marked in blue).
Imagined Proposal showing new paving, traffic calming measures and improved public realm
As a threshold point, it is a logical point to park bikes for visitors to the village.
Providing a levelled, shared surface along the carriageway into the village, clearing street furniture to the edges of footpaths and removing kerb lines would clarify the Village spatially, improve accessibility and provide a quality civic space for the Village appropriate to one of Dublin’s key urban villages.
Historical map overlays showing the relative positions of the church and the waterfront as it has developed over time with the creation of Sean Moore Park.