Loft

In Architecture, a loft is a Logement consisted of entirely open spaces. This one is carried out, by definition, in old a Atelier, Entrepôt or Usine. This choice makes it possible to obtain released and enlightened volumes, generally, by Fenêtre S or Verrière S bored in the walls or the roof (“saw-teeth”).

Origin

The occupation of old commercial premises or industrialists appeared at the end of years 1970 in the United States. A marginal fringe artists thus invested unused factories and warehouses (Lofts), in which they found, with lower costs, space and volume necessary to their créations.
Located initially in not very gravitational industrial waste lands, this habitat quickly attracted galleries, restaurants or bars " branchés" , connected to the artistic life underground . The process of the real estate speculation took over then, bringing easy customers. These districts then transfer to arrive the yuppies (Young urban professional) and dinkies (double income No kids) amateurs of these renovated spaces and non conformist.

Lofts in France

The phenomenon of the lofts was spread in France, with a more reduced scale, in the years 1980 to culminate with the real crisis of 1990. The lofts concentrated in the great agglomerations, in which existed customers and an artistic life. The artisanal or industrial districts were the invested first, 17th, 18th, 19th Parisian districts (small industries), district of the Bastille (craft industry of wood), district of the path. The peripheral cities followed the movement with a few years of shift, mainly in the east of the capital: The Ivry-on-Seine, Montreuil, Bagnolet, Pantin.
To transform and arrange an old room Industriel in Appartement with use of permanent Habitation can prove sometimes expensive. This kind of Construction, initially accessible, is thus reserved today for a population rather aisée.

See too

  • Loft Story

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