That was owned by Joe Fallon, the architectural technologist behind the Dublin and Wexford-based architectural practice Joe Fallon Design. It was old stone rubble walls and no insulation in the cavity walls in the 1960s extension,” Higgins says. They are now a family of five and this latest generation of the Higgins family is fully enmeshed in the local community. Higgins and Fallon gelled so well that the construction engineer has since worked with Joe Fallon Design on numerous projects. It will hopefully survive for another couple of generations.”Fallon says there is a lot of emotion involved in renovating your old family home.