Project by Jiawen Li and Yuanfeng Luo
The adaptive reuse of the former U.S. Consulate transforms the building into the Irish American Cultural Museum while integrating hotel, dining, and leisure programs that activate the site with contemporary commercial use. The design layers moments of Irish migration—departure, struggle, and renewal—through overlapping spatial sequences, where architecture choreographs relationships between artifacts across eras. The newly introduced commercial programs—accommodations, gathering spaces, and places of respite—extend the museum’s themes of memory, identity, and communal exchange into everyday occupation of the building.
