NMBW Architecture Studio was asked to add a roof deck and a vertical garden to an existing four-storey warehouse apartment in Melbourne’s South Yarra. The knock-on effect of fulfilling these simple requests was a cascade of small revisions and modifications that go above and beyond the brief. They work in concert to improve the circulation flow, the amount of daylight, the sense of openness, the acoustic experience and the sense of “warehouseness” of the spaces. “We were trying to reorganize the infrastructure of the project, rather than change it too much,” says co-director Nigel Bertram, yet the small changes have had a powerful impact.
NMBW Architecture Studio aims to strike a balance between the way architecture works, how it performs for the users and the way it looks. Originally the circulation…
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