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Eco-village architecture won't be wacky

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2005 / January 20

Plans for an eco-village in Co Tipperary are gaining momentum. Eco-architecture still has an image problem. Mention it to anyone and the first thing they're likely to think of is an oddly-shaped structure with a grass roof and lots of things sticking out of it. So when Sustainable Projects Ireland (SPI), headed by the irrepressible Gavin Harte, first mooted the creation of a "sustainable community" back in 1999, the prospect was that it would be made-up buildings like this, inhabited by New Age types ploughing their own furrows. After toying with a site in the Carlow countryside, SPI - now trading as "The Village" - settled for a site right off the main street of Cloughjordan in north Tipperary, and commissioned Dublin-based Solearth Ecological Architecture, headed by Brian O'Brien, to draw up a master plan.

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