INCHICOREA N A L Y S I S

The name Camac comes from the Irish “cam-

uisce”, meaning “the crooked water”. It flows

through Clondalkin, Drimnagh, Inchicore and

Kilmainham before joining the Liffey at Heuston

Station over a 325 mile long journey, of which 6.4

miles is culverted. The Camac is Dublin’s fourth

largest river and was used to power numerous

mills until around the 19th century.

DID YOU KNOW?

TRACING THE RIVER CAMAC

The river Camac played a vital role the establishment of Inchicore. It at-tracted many industries and mills as a source of power and water, nearly 30 mills were powered along its en-tire course.Today the Crooked River lies hidden within built environment of Inchicore and is unused and difficult to get

to, making it a prime location as a dumping ground.

How can the potential of the river be recovered as an amenity and a source of power and water?It could make a nice walking and/or cycling route to Heuston Station...

How close can you get to the Camac? Walls, fences, gates, private estates and dead ends don’t make it a very public river!The Camac used to power several mills and was central to the community of Inchicore.

WHERE IS THE CROOKED RIVER

VACANT IN INCHICOREInchicore has suffered from a gradual decline of its urban fabric. Bad planning and Celtic Tiger projects have ignored the social and physical needs of the town and its people. Combined with the economic downturn, this has led to a growing number of vacant spac-es in Inchicore.

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EXISTING ROUTES

NEW PEDESTRAN

IMPERMEABLEINCHICOREThis is a study showing the unconnected routes through Inchicore, with a particular focus on Emmet Crescent and Thomas Davis Street, with schools and com-munity amenities lo-

cated on cul de sac streets.

Would you like to see a more open and con-nected community?

G O L D E N B R I D G E I N D U S T R I A L E S T A T E

Goldenbridge Industrial Estate and extended surrounding territory

The Goldenbridge Industrial Park uses over 5 hectares of land be-tween the canal and the Tyrconnell Road. Today it is made up of in-dustrial size sheds. The occupants range from glass centres to a Carribean food cash and carry and a climbing centre. There is also a number of vacant units there too, roughly 30-40%.

Access to the park is restricted to one entrance to the street and the river is built over to allow for more road access. It has a great loca-tion and potential along the canal. It is also along the “innovation corridor” or “gateway to the west”

as described in the DCC strategy for the Naas Road area SW of Inchicore.

There is a boundary fence around the whole area separating the sur-rounding territories of the church, the school and the Blackhorse Luas stop.

The question is how to enhance the current condition of this place and its surrounding neighbours?

Could the place be reconnected with the canal and the river, which the mill had such a close relation-ship before?

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vacant units

I N C H I C O R E I N N U M B E R S

Information taken from the Central Statistics office (CSo)Census 2011 for the two Inchicore parishes (Mary Immaculate & St. Michael’s) and Dublin City & suburbs.

I N C H I C O R E I N N U M B E R S

We are part of an architectural thesis group in UCD, entitled ‘Expanded Practice’. We are currently un-dertaking a reading of the landscape of Inchicore, it’s social history, architectural legacy and close rela-tionship to important landscape features such as the Cammock River and the Grand Canal.

Expanded Practice is a methodology of analysis, re-search and design that supplements the traditional design process, exploring modes of reading a place and designing architecture for it, which is associated with a more fluid set of processes and social condi-tions.

The daily methodology of our work involves consulta-tion with resources in both Inchicore and UCD. It is a collaboration, a sharing of information in order to plug this into the design process. It is of the utmost importance to the process that while practicing in an expanded field, the approach to analysis and repre-sentation is equally expanded, or expanding.

We endeavour to use as many varied methods of representation and analysis as possible in order to achieve a more expanded analysis of Inchicore. This methodology is developing as it is being applied, it is a learning and absorbing process that requires test-ing, experimentation and tweaking.

It is our hope that this analysis will contribute to the on-going discussion of how space and resource is used, in Inchicore and in a wider field.

This is a collection of thoughts, drawings, ideas , sug-gestions, interventions and history.

Visit us for a chat and some tea! Give us your thoughts or stories, learn a bit more about Inchicore’s history and development, see some old and current photos of the railway works or propose your own changes in the town.

We will be in:Common Ground, 15 Tyrconnell Road.Monday - Wednesday 10am-5:30pm (24th March - 2nd April)

Inchicore Sport and Social Club, Inchicore Square2-5pm, 5th April

See exhibition boards in Inchicore Public LibraryLibrary opening times, 7th - 17th April

We are a group of five UCD architecture students called Expanded Practice. We are doing a collaborative project with the people of Inchicore. Our goal is to generate a public discussion about how space is used in the area and what could potentially happen there to tap into its potential.

expandedpractice@gmail.com

W H OA R E W E ?

JOIN IN THEDISCUSSION!

C O N T A C T

Tear out this page, draw or write down your ideas or comments and drop them off at :Expanded PracticeCommon Ground, 15 Tyrconnell Road

Pop into our Ideas Exhibition for a chat and some tea and biscuits!

Saturday April 5th 2-5pmInchicore Sports and Social Club(Former CIE Hall)Inchicore Square

SUBMITY O U RIDEAS !