A vast, ex-bogland landscape, as big as greater Dublin, which would be equivalent to the 16th-largest county in the Republic and currently has a population of 0 (v 1.2m for Dublin), will come free in the midlands Boora Complex by 2030. What would you do, faced with future food and energy shortages, with a new county if you could start from scratch?

By 2030 the vast, open wetland territory of Ireland's Boora Complex, the size of a small county, will be ready for reuse. This nascent landscape offers an unrivalled opportunity to re-imagine and reconfigure our relationship with the land, without address to established patterns of exploitation or occupation. The proposal explores the potential for creating new super-rural communities, forged in tandem with a productive landscape in a symbiotic relationship that exploits the remnants of inherited industrial infrastructure in an emerging terrain dedicated to the production of both food and energy.

Boyd Cody Architects
Irish Architecture Foundation