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NEW BUILDING IN A FORMER SHED  A mathematical steel skeleton on the spot where there used to be a warehouse has now become a home with studio space. 'We built as deep as we were allowed to go according to the building restrictions, creating a home in which the residential functions follow each other logically'.  Yannick Milpas NEW VOLUME BETWEEN COMMON WALLSRobin Van Beveren of BASIL architecture created this fine home in what used to be a densely built shed on the outskirts of Bruges. The shed was not reusable, so all we had was a narrow plot and two common walls. There were two options: either it became a typical townhouse, or we did what we wanted within the available volume of the former warehouse. Because the common wa... More

Located in heart of the Venice neighborhood, the Milwood Residence is a 3,800 square foot single-family home created to connect its occupants and their surroundings. Sensible programmatic adjacency and an open floor plan define the spaces at ground level. Occupants can move freely between common spaces which extend to exterior spaces as well as vertically via a central circulation 'void' to the roof deck. The 'void' was achieved via a custom operable skylight which fills the space of the circulation core for the home and allows access to the roof deck. This solved an architectural problem common to homes in the area. Many homes in Venice have roof decks, however, the code only allows a small amount of space to extend above the bui... More