loft fd | Federico Delrosso Architects

A single-cell organism divided into two volumes structurally identical and internally similar but opposite. This is the project for the restructuring and interiors of twin lofts, in the post-industrial Milan of 2007. The work turned in fact on a former factory in the southern part of Milan, once an industrial outer suburb and today a residential district.
Twin lofts, with the same design as the internal spaces, because they were created by the dividing a single one long sleeve-shaped space lengthwise. The ground floors of the two lofts, for example, each comprise the mirrored halls, open kitchens, and the apertures onto the small private gardens, a long table with high seating, a bathroom and the staircase that goes up to the floors above. In the first one, in fact, the staircase is the strong element, thanks to its volumes (which incorporate the bathroom), the raw material (pickled iron) with bare welds and the risers of the stairs left hollow, so that as you go up your point of view changes and the staircase is lightened and acquires the consistency of origami.
Like the colours used for the surfaces: all white for the satin-finish lacquered wood of the cabinets and work surfaces in Corian in the first.
Symmetries and variations are also interlaced on the upper floors.
On the first floor a portion of glass flooring, to provide a glimpse of the kitchens below. On the second floor the strictly orthogonal interiors is interrupt by introducing a circular bed and replacing the doors of the walk-in wardrobe by a whole wall made of soft white draperies. The top level of the attic is an all-white space designed as a guest room.