It is proposed that the site be developed to accomodate and serve a multiplicity of users to include the following:

• Young unemployed
• Creche/playgroup facility
• Social Services/Statutory agencies point of contact
• Ageing population
• Disabled people
• The Homeless
• Counselling facilities
• Office facilities/printing, fax, e-mail, internet
• Exhibition centre
• Women's issues

Plan Arrangement

Level 1 - Direct access from Bonds Hill

1. Multi-purpose Meeting Hall 208 m² or 2230 ft² - This area will have a variety of uses. Week night activities could include badminton, bowls, training sessions, seminars, exhibitions, entertainment, creche, and would be available for hire to the general public.
2. Staff Room.
3. Male/Female/Disabled Toilets.
4. Lift and main stair to other floors.
5. Cleaner's store.
6. Large kitchen with servery to service main hall.

Level 2

1. Lobby with viewing windows looking over multi-purpose meeting hall below.
2. Two Meeting Rooms; one with viewing windows overlooking multi-purpose hall below.
3. Boiler Room/Oil Storage with access onto adjoining steps.
4. Switch Room.
5. Lift and main stair to other floors.

1. Main access to the building at this level i.e. street level from Clooney Terrace. Funerals, weddings will enter at this level.
2. Cafe/Coffee Shop facing Clooney Terrace which will be open to the general public which hopefully at lunchtime will target office workers and in the evening may serve as a milk bar for teenagers.
3. Reception area for the City Mission and the whole building where the work of the mission can be explained together with the building facilities.
4. Main Worship Centre (324 seats). This will be the Worship Centre of the Mission Congregation and continue to be known as Clooney Hall Methodist Church. A section of the floor will be laid to a slight fall.
5. Vestry.
6. Male/Female/Disabled Toilet facilities.
7. Lift and main staircase connection to other floors in the building.

1. Administration Office for use by the Missions Administrative Staff or other which can be sub-divided as required.
2. Area off lobby overlooking main worship area. This area can be used as 1 unit or sub-divided into smaller meeting rooms as required.
3. Large Meeting Room.
4. Mission Superintendent's Office.
5. Office for use by All Saints, Clooney (Church of Ireland).
6. Print Room for photocopying facilities, etc.
7. Lift and main staircase access to other floors.

1. Office Suite for rental, comprising 6 offices.
2. Male/Female/Disabled Toilet facilities.
3. Tea Room.
4. Lift and main staircase to other floors.

Staircases
Located to satisfy means of escape requirements - one at each entrance - Clooney Terrace/Bonds Hill - to provide access to and escape from all floors. One staircase may be dedicated to office suite access (except in escape circumstances).

Lift
An 8 person lift provided adjacent to rear staircase to access all floors. This is the minimum requirement for disabled access and will also allow deliveries of exhibitions and any other equipment to be used in the building direct from Bonds Hill without disruption of the main entrance on Clooney Terrace.

Escape Routes
Two principal stairs provide escape from all floors to outside. An additional single flight stair provides escape direct to Bonds Hill from Levels 1, 2, & 3.

Visual Image and Massing
The Cross, Methodist Name and Symbols will appear in prominent positions on the external facades.

Bonds Hill Facade
The existing building lines and massing willl be respected. This 5 storey facing onto Bonds Hill will be a narrower, scaled down version of the Clooney Terrace entrance.
The 4 storey volume of the Meeting Hall and Worship Centre occupies much of the Bonds Hill facade with tall narrow windows set in a rendered wall, with three quarter storey plinths.
 
 
 

Northern Facade Facing Existing Church
On this elevation, a 3 storey block acts as a solid 'book end' to the terrace against the Church. In contrast to the main entrance this block will have a more solid appearance with small openings and clerestorey windows.

Clooney Terrace Facade
Scale to match adjoining buildings with existing building line and heights respected. The entrance should be bright, open and inviting to reflect a modern building keeping in mind the multiplicity of usages within.