The living room space is larger in the inbuilt version because there is no roof deck, and the transverse end walls were simplified in the final built version," Huh explained. "Two areas where I took more liberties from the available documentation was with the use of the board-form finish on the interior concrete walls and adding a grass paver system for the driveway."
The Milam Residence marked the last of Rudolph's series of well-known Florida houses. Between 1946 and 1962, he designed roughly 80 contemporary homes in the southern US state, and he was a key figure in the region's Sarasota Modern design movement. He died in 1997.