architect

Helen Devitt Architects is a small bespoke practice combining enthusiasm and experience to offer a comprehensive and personal design & consultancy service where clients deal directly with principal

Helen Devitt from the inception of a project. Helen draws on over 20 years experience, having worked

in Manhattan, Glasgow, Dublin and Cork, in a range of architectural practices, including Murray O’Laoire Architects Cork and Cork City Council. Helen also works as a part-time lecturer at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education.

services

The practice offers a range of RIAI architectural services including

the following specialised conservation services:

– Initial on-site appraisal of historic building/ protected structure

– Proposals for adaption and re-use of historic buildings

– Advise on how to improve the energy efficiency of a traditional building

– Liaising with key heritage bodies and planning department

– Feasibility studies and options appraisals

– Sketch designs proposals

– Statements of significance

– Advise on planning legislation relating to historic and protected environment

– Preparation of planning applications for historic buildings

– Maintenance plans and schedules of repair

– Grants and funding advice

– Historic building appraisals & surveys

– Architectural heritage impact assessments

– Photographic records of historic structures

– Conservation consultancy

artist

Helen Devitt augments her architectural practice and specialised area of conservation with her art practice, having completed a degree in fine art at the Crawford College of Art & Design Cork in 2014. Working intuitively through a number of media including painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture, the Irish landscape, both natural and man-made, is explored.  Her training and practice as an architect for over two decades has informed this exploration and the making of place and a sense of place is re-imagined in her work through surface and material in which a resonance of a culture and history is embedded.