What is Interface Architectures ?

This website is the collective work of fourth and fifth year students partaking in the elective "Interface Architectures", at the School of Architecture University of Limerick (SAUL), Spring Semester 2024. The elective is led by Maria McLintock and Kaye Toland. Using the River Shannon as our site, each of us explored the river as an interface within social, historical and economic contexts. Presenting our findings in audio, visual and textual formats.








Borders permeate the urban and rural condition(s) of Limerick and the broader region of the South and North of Ireland. Interface Architectures will introduce you to these urban and rural bordered condition within the River Shannon in Limerick through multidisciplinary research: walking, emergent forms of writing, documenting and collectively producing.

Central to the work will be a drive to place bordered contexts transversally, specifically within too often
overlooked histories, such as the enmeshment of the urban in three centuries of British colonial violence, ensuing unstable land tenure, and ongoing ecological dilapidation.