Wood workshop to loft apartment | Z-architects architecture studio

The loft apartment project was designed for a young couple in Crete.

They have an old wood workshop area and they decided to transform it to an apartment.  You can see the 360 view at images section. 

The small area (65 sqm) and the short height were two restriction factors that affected the design. The concrete beam in the middle was also a problem for designing a proper house. Noting that in the project area already was a WC for the needs of the wood workshop. 

​At the beginning of the design process the geographical position of the building and the sun orientation was studied carefully to achieve maximum light levels and make an energy efficient apartment.
This is the first loft apartment we design in our office so we had to do a lot of research.
We developed a structural analysis for the loft and we decided to suggest with proposals to our clients.

Proposal B was chosen instead of A cause it used the full height space above the living room and the dinner table.
As the wood workshop was a family business, wood was used widely in the design.
Simple design and functionality were the main targets in this project. We didn't have any flexibility modifying the externals views so we focused in the interior design. The client needed three bedrooms: a master, a secondary and a third one for storage and service needs. We used the facilities of the previous bathroom and we designed another one above for the needs of the loft.