For my final year project, I worked with the Cleeve’s Condensed Milk Factory Building, an iconic landmark of Limerick City and a key element of the city’s collective memory. After remaining vacant since 2011, the site offered a compelling opportunity for readaptation while honouring its industrial past. My design proposal focused on transforming this historically significant structure into a music production facility and live music venue, equipped with a record & music store and café, breathing new life into the building through a creative and culturally relevant program. The conceptual foundation of my project centred on the experience of music and the ways in which spatial qualities can shape, enhance, and even transform that experience. I wanted to encapsulate the feeling of sound becoming space in my project to create a truly immersive space. By drawing inspiration from the emotional, physical, and sensory dimensions of music, the design aims to blur the boundaries between auditory and architectural experiences. Ultimately, the ambition of the project was to craft an environment where the architectural language of the former factory merged with contemporary acoustic design, creating a space that not only supports music production and performance but also deepens the audience’s connection to sound itself.
