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WILLOUGHBY WAREHOUSE
2006 - 3500sq ft Renovation, Brooklyn NY

Conversion of an industrial warehouse into live and work space for two sculptors and their twins with an additional rental unit. In order to keep costs down the project was conceived as a work in progress. The husband was going to organize most of the work and wanted to re-use as much material from the site as possible. In order to allow for future expansion a scheme was developed around a central service core organizing the public and private living spaces on the first floor while connecting to the basement studios and a possible future second floor.

A grid wall by MGS provides an enclosure around the stair.

The bedrooms are defined by a storage wall system made from old art crates and other found objects from the renovation - seen here from the kitchen. The clients have been building and developing the final surfaces based on a structural and conceptual framework developed in collaboration with Matt Gagnon Studio.
At the entrance a freestanding partition constructed by the owner is made from scraps of beams and other wood taken from building during the upgrade.