Professional work
Project: SoHo Loft
Program: Interior design
Location: Wooster Street, New York
Team: WORKac
Year: 2008
A very long and narrow 3000 SF loft in SoHo with windows at both ends. The program called for two seperate bedrooms, two bathrooms and a large kitchen where the bachelor owner would be able to entertain anything from 1-30 guests. Technical requirements dictated the placement of the bathrooms and the kitchen sink.
The client wanted to keep the full view through the apartment however, he was not keen on having the one bedroom, meant for his permanet roomate, placed in the front of the apartment. The solution was to situate both bedrooms at one end making the to the living space seperating wall transparent during the day and translucent during the night using the Priva-Lite technology, a glass with liquid crystal film inside that becomes opaque when an electric current through the film is cut off.
Punched through this glass wall, with 11 feet tall doors, is the walk-in closet for the roomate. A fur clad box hovering over the floor with an entrance from the second bedroom and a bookshelf towards the media/entertainment area. The kitched is pushed in the core wall making it possible to hide the plumbing where as the oven is located in the oversize kitchen island, with a huge cantilevered dining table attached to one end, this makes the perfect playground for the performance of the amateur cusinier.
Being that the loft is located on the top floor and that the bathrooms placed in the core had no daylight, we opted to place two circular skylights over the master bathroom and one over the second bathroom. During the night the bathrooms would be iluminated artificially through these skylights. Storage is solved by adding a number of hidden closets and compartments in the 2 feet thickness of the core wall.
