Our final project of Second year was to design a series of open loft homes using a univeristy owned warehouse. The homes had to fit in a footprint within 900 square feet and should feature sustainable ideas and materials. My design took to a very contemporary approach, with a loft I thought the best solution would be then to have very few walls sepearating spaces but I still wanted to give some kind of separation, so materials and textures were chosen to mark these changes. The floors were largely concrete with certain areas given bamboo flooring to mark out those spaces, this was noticable in the kitchen and in the loft if self. On the cieling drop cielings are used to show these changes in space with a large drop over the kitchen while 3 smaller arched cieling fixtures mark the transition into the living space. To mark leaving the public areas of the home the stairs use a series of 1x3" boards layered with each one alternating between a natural stain and a black paint.
These stairs created a nice statement in the space they inhabited and gave good transition from the concrete metal and brick public spaces to the wood private space.
Upstairs in the loft their are two main sections the sleeping space and an outcrop which in this case has been designed as a home office. The outcrop was designed to seperate the occupant physically but still give them a connection as they can view all around them down into the public space or up in the loft space. It is both isolated and yet integrated with what is around it. the floors up here are made with bamboo flooring in two stains spice and natural.
In order to keep the occupants from falling their is a railing going around the perimeter of the loft. The design of this sticks with the contemporary feel I was trying to establish and is very industrial, not to mention recyclable thanks to its aluminium construction.
