The concept behind the project was born by taking the original form of the Kells Monastery and imagining the location and conformation of its original volume.

The intended use is as an academy of art and design, so exhibition, administrative, physical and digital production laboratories as well as spaces for lectures were planned. The main volume, protected by a glazed envelope, is articulated around the space of the inner courtyard and provides different paths for visitors, staff and students.

The intervention proposes to reuse the spaces formed by the ruins maintaining the current state of the masonry unchanged on the ground floor, while on the second floor the spaces belonging to the new volume follow the diversification of the paths, allowing visitors and students to individually use the same building.

The outdoor spaces include the presence of a “design cemetery,” a metaphor for the new developments coveted by the discipline.