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Article: Turning a derelict stone farmhouse into an architect-designed family home would be considered a challenge by anyone but ensuring that the design was also sympathetic to the building's architectural heritage and incorporated elements of passive solar design would be classed as a mammoth task.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Turning a derelict stone farmhouse into an architect-designed family home would be considered a challenge by anyone but ensuring that the design was also sympathetic to the building's architectural heritage and incorporated elements of passive solar design would be classed as a mammoth task.
However, that is exactly what geology expert Raymond Healy set out to do in 2007 and, just over two years later, that is what he has ...