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This week, we’re looking at homes featured in Brooklyn Modern by Diana Lind, with photographs by Yoko Inoue. Here’s Diana’s installment #3:
Scott Oliver and Margarita McGrath of noroof architects excel at maximizing space. They bought a 1,000-square-foot frame house in Ft. Greene and divided it up into an owner’s duplex and a rental apartment. With just 600 square feet for themselves, noroof did more than just fit in the basics of bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom. Every space has a double purpose: a guest bed is hidden above the kitchen shelves, a deck sits above the rental apartment’s roof, a sliver of room behind the staircase is filled with storage designed by the architects. In a similar fashion, a beautiful tree frames the house from the outside, casting shadows on the facade — from the inside, it seems that the windows frame the tree.