This project involved alterations and additions to an existing Victorian house that had been renovated in the late 1980s. The client brief called for a new second-floor addition comprising five bedrooms and associated bathrooms. An extension of this requirement was to reconfigure the ground floor living, dining and kitchen areas. A critical factor in the reorganization of these spaces was…
This residence was designed as a flexible compound for large family gatherings and overnight guests. Key requirements were to maximize volume light and privacy on a narrow urban lot, and employ sustainability and sensitivity to scale and context. Built of raw, honest materials appropriate to the bohemian grittiness of Venice, the house dissolves the barriers between indoors and out, creating multi-use spaces…
The owner was able to convince the developer to allow the construction of a “modern” house in a proposed “traditional” neighborhood. The conditions were that the modem house had to be invisible from the street and that the design would have to be approved by the local architectural review committee. The architectural aim was to create a house that emerges…