Róisín Purkis
2023 - 2025 Architect: Galliker und Riva Architekten, Luzern
Projects: Lakefield High End Housing. Obergoms Luxury Alpine Hotel. Residential / Domestic feasibility studies. Planning & listed building work
2024 ARB registered
2021 - 2023 Architect (prior intern): Kathrinsimmen Architekt:innen, Zürich
Projects: Assisted Elderly Living. Residential feasibility studies. Competition entries.
2020 - 2022 MA. Arch, HSLU, Switzerland
2019 - 2020 Architectural Assistant, Pt. 1: LIKE Architects, Belfast
Projects: Titanic Distillery. Crumlin Gaol. Lansdowne Crescent Housing.
2019 - 2023 Co-organiser and writer: DOCEXDOCE Architecture competitions
2019 EASA Participant (Irish Team)
2018 - 2019 Intern: CUAC Arquitectura, Granada, Spain
Projects: Muro Con Apartemento. Casa Beas. Casa Aire.
2016 -2018 B.S. Arch UCD, Dublin
Publications
2022 Rising Resilience - DOCEXDOCE Competition Topic
2021 Beyond Barriers - DOCEXDOCE Competition Topic
2020 Small Spaces Prodigious Production - HSLU Masters essay collection
Experience in
Renovation / Conversions
High-End Housing / Luxury Hotels
Cooperative Housing & Densification
Designing for the Elderly
Rural cabins
Product Design
a little background
Designing a home is creating a sanctuary: a series of tailored spaces that exude warmth and personality with a throughline of functionality and tendrils of poeticism. My fascination with how we choose to live, sustainable regionalism and layers of cultural inspiration, having worked, studied and travelled across Europe, Asia, and South America, has brought me to this point as an architect and designer.
Inspired by the Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi 法印, I aim to create structures and choose materials that age beautifully, can be repaired rather than dumped, and embody individuality. Training as an Architect in Ireland and then Switzerland, I currently focus on housing and individual projects that allow for the German phrase 'Gesamtkunstwerk', meaning total artwork, paying attention to details, interiors, landscape, furniture, textiles and the wider public/environment while ensuring the technical construction of a build. Interest and involvement in all aspects of the design process result in rich, cohesive projects rooted in client relationships and collaboration.