Not so long ago the street facade of an Irish home was seen as a critical projection of the owner's status in society. Over the last 10 years, the back gardens of Dublin have taken over this role as more and more residents, unwilling or unable to move house, release the equity on their homes by enlarging their properties. Boyd Cody has been operating in this domestic territory for almost four years and some 20 projects, most recently completing a brick mews house in the seaside suburb of Monkstown in south-east Dublin. It is the practice's first standalone house, the first which does not require life support from an established home. As if determined to prove this, the house stands apart from its immediate boundaries, with four distinct elevations. While adjacent properties built as villas in other rear gardens attempt to assert a kind of simplistic individuality and greedily mark territory, Boyd Cody's Cubical House is quietly radical in its approach.
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