Loft M

Zagreb, Croatia

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Loft M

Zagreb, Croatia

Firm

IVANA DABROVIC I ARHITEKTI

Type

Residential › Apartment

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2018

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

Undisclosed

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Ivana Dabrović, architect
PROJECT TEAM
Maja Tutavac, architect
CONTRACTORS
Vodoinstalaterski obrt, vl. Dino Jaklenec
AEDIFEX VISIO d.o.o.
Stolarija Branko Rudolf
PHOTO
Marko Ercegović
The Loft M project is a remodel and interior design of an attic space of a building in an apartment block in Lower town Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.
The early century building is woven into the urban tissue as part of an apartment block at the heart of the city, a few minutes from the Cathedral.
The back exterior wall of the apartment block still awaits renovation, but the architectural challenge here was to create something new in something that is already there.
The main idea for the space was to integrate two loft bedrooms with an exposed steel frame into the current space with its double-pitched roof and existing wooden frame.
In the attic space covered by the Loft M project the features of the space are best utilized in the sleeping area on the south side, while the public space of the living room retains the full height of the attic surface to maintain spaciousness.
This is emphasized by the existing wooden frame with its interlocking exposed wooden beams, which have been restored and now not only have a bearing function but are an esthetic installation within the space.
The layout of the rooms has been done according to the investor's wishes, the capacities of the space, orientation etc.
In this attic space the bedrooms are lit through glass panes which stand in contrast to the door of the conservatory on the north side, which continues onto a terrace with a view of the cathedral.
This is where the double-height living room opens up towards light and the outside, as light enters the living room as well as the kitchen that follows the conservatory door onto the terrace.
The bedrooms contain loft spaces, workspaces and closets in the lower part, and each with its unique wood and steel stairway adds to the natural look of the space along with the existing irregular wooden structure.
The bathrooms on the loft area, next to the rooms, have glass walls in order to increase spaciousness.
On the ground floor a black block unit leads into the other spaces, beginning with an entryway with a closet and guest bathroom and leading onto the kitchen foreground with storage space, to the living room with shelves, and in the end to the bedrooms.
The ceiling of the pitched roof is covered with pressed wooden boards in order to retain the warm atmosphere of the loft and create contrast with the steel.
All these materials are supplemented by colorful tiles and textiles such as carpets, curtains etc.
The floors of the outside of the terrace as well as the conservatory are covered with Accoya natur wood, while the edge as well as the railings are made of black flat steel profile and Alucobond, whose precise lines form a contrast to the still unrenovated exterior wall of the building made of exposed irregular brick.
In this project a new, contemporary intervention has been made onto old tissue, namely the existing architecture of the loft space itself as well as the early-century apartment block known as Lower Zagreb apartment block.