"We wanted to use a thousand year old technology to test a contemporary idea, to stretch old ways of working to search for something new, to imagine a synthesis of space and volume and structure, a resonant integrity rarely experienced in modern construction." - John Tuomey
The Rambling Houses at Fartha are experimental structures, lively demonstrations of local skills and built in locally sourced materials. Rambling houses were found in old Irish villages, gathering places for music and story-telling, places open to the passer-by.
The Stone Vessel is the second of what will be three structures, built across the spring and summer months of 2023. It is a development out of ten years’ collaboration between O’Donnell + Tuomey and Joseph Walsh. Assembled by hand, stone on stone, the Stone Vessel is built within the limitations of available material, walls made of fieldstone quarried out of the immediate site, or locally sourced harder limestone for quoins and lintels.