Cineál Research & Design is a collaborative architectural practice led by Phoebe Brady and Sarah Doheny.
We are interested in understanding architectural spaces at a human level and in how we can design with kindness, in a thoughtful and considered way, through careful observation and response to what already exists around us.
We identify as an environmentally sensitive practice where drawing, designing and building processes are rooted in place, connecting local landscape knowledge, ecology, geology, climate and weather.
Our research projects embody the ideologies that we endeavour to maintain through our built practice; to create new architectural ecologies that reduce environmental impact. This involves a careful consideration of a project’s scope, re-use as first port of call, carefully sourcing materials and minimising embodied and operational energy requirements of architecture design.
Phoebe Brady, BScArch MArch MRIAI, is an architect whose work spans design and research and teaching. She is a Design Fellow at the School of Architecture University College Dublin and is a Climate Resilience Project Tutor at the School of Architecture University of Limerick where her role focuses on material cultures in design and construction. She has contributed reviews to Architecture Ireland and to the RIAI Student Writing Prize 2023 judging panel. She is An Taisce Climate Ambassador for 2026.
Sarah Doheny, BScArch BArch MRIAI, isan architect, sound artist and photographer from Ireland. I received my architectural qualifications from University College Dublin and practiced with RKD and Paul Keogh Architects (PKA). Her academic research has focused on architecture and the senses, memory, psychogeography and mapping through the act of walking. She contributes to the teaching team in the architecture design studios at Atlantic Technological University Sligo. sarahdoheny.cargo.site
Photography © Finn Richards
Project Collaborators
Paul O’Neill, Emer Perkins, Rachel McDarby, Finn Richards, Ciana March, Jonny Blayney, Rachel Gallagher, Jack Hogan, AAA Catchment Collective, Deirdre Rogers & Belinda Quirke (Solstice)
With special thanks to the Irish Arts Council, Solstice Arts Centre, ADK Berlin and Wicklow & Meath County Council for their support.
Contact
studio@cinealplace.com
locations
Inchicore, Co. Dublin
Navan, Co.Meath