St James' Farm, Belfast

by MMAS  

Client Belfast City Council (end user - St James Community Forum) 

Award RIBA Northern Ireland Award 2023 , Living Places Award

St James’ Farm occupies a once vacant piece of land at the end of a terrace of houses off the Falls Road, West Belfast, immediately west of the busy M1 motorway. The Bog Meadows nature reserve wraps around to the south. Already an established community farm, architects MMAS offered their services pro-bono when the community secured funding for some form of lock-up facilities, the initial thought being shipping containers. MMAS’s intervention has transformed that simple idea into a genuine expression of architecture, which generates a very particular sense of place. 

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

 Contractor Earney Contracts 

Environmental / M&E Engineer SCC 

Structural Engineer Design ID 

Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant  - Project QS 

Gross internal area in m2 209