Multifunctional Building at Centre Pier Galway Harbor, Ireland

A sketch design is done as an application to the open Ideas Competition. The site is located in a downtown of Galway city, on the pier of historical, but still active port. The main architectural concept is based on a swan image, floating in the silent harbor waters. Nevertheless, how strange that seems, swans are always there. People are making photos, paintings and poems of swans at Galway harbor since old times.

Therefore such image of a white swan became as a main symbol for the buildings white shape. Function of the building is simple – public open stage with retractable roof, exhibition hall, trade, office and marine facilities on a floating pier.