Green light for new student accommodation

Posted on: 31 January 2017

More students will be able to live on campus at Trinity College Dublin after planners granted permission for new student residences. The new Oisín House development will provide accommodation for an extra 250 students as well as a student health centre, disability service centre and sports facilities. The project will also involve repairs to the adjoining buildings. Trinity already houses many students in the campus as well as student residences near the city centre.

The new project will include a series of well-designed individual rooms gathered in six- and eight-bed units around a common living room/ kitchen areas. 

The development will integrate contemporary architecture with the historic fabric of the city and the university. It is sensitive to both the Printing House on the Trinity campus to the south and the rest of Pearse Street to the north.

The Oisín House project represents another milestone in Trinity’s redevelopment plans along Pearse Street. Another flagship building is the new €70 million School of Business which already under construction and which will be finished next year. The new School of Business building will incorporate an Innovation and Entrepreneurship hub and will front onto Pearse Street and the campus, providing another link between the city and the University.