What is SOHO? What is LOFT?

LOFT is defined in the Oxford dictionary as "the attic where things are stored under the roof". But now the so-called LOFT refers to those "tall open spaces transformed from old factories or warehouses with few interior walls", which was born in SOHO District of new york. The connotation of LOFT is a tall and open space with the characteristics of fluidity, development, permeability and artistry. After 90' s, LOFT has become an art fashion that is popular all over the world. If the birth of LOFT originated from poor artists' turning waste into treasure, then LOFT, as a lifestyle or fashion trend today, has completely evolved into a conspicuous consumption.

2. Origin

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LOFT, a lifestyle, first appeared in new york in the 1940s.

At that time, artists and designers used abandoned industrial factories to separate various spaces such as living, working, socializing, entertainment and collection. In the vast factory, they have built various lifestyles, created performance art, or held exhibitions of works, which made them feel hearty and happy. These factories later became the most personalized, avant-garde and popular places for young people.

In the late 20th century, LOFT, the art of perfect collision between industrialization and post-modernism, gradually evolved into a fashionable way of life and work, and spread widely all over the world.

3. Elements

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The definition elements of Loft mainly include: tall and open space, double-layer structure, stairs and beams similar to the stage effect of drama; Mobility and accessibility of apartments; Transparency, reducing the degree of privacy; Openness, all-round combination between units; Artistic, usually the owner decides all the styles and patterns by himself.

4. Lifestyle

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LOFT space has great flexibility, and people can create their dream home and dream life at will, without being limited by existing institutions or components. People can make the space completely open or divided, and make it contain personalized aesthetic taste. Since then, the rough column wall, gloomy cement floor and bare steel structure have been separated from the old warehouse. In an ugly old factory building, a new breath is surging, and this is LOFT life.

LOFT symbolizes avant-garde art and the life and creation of artists. It challenges the traditional concept of living such as garden houses and the concept of working and living areas in modern cities. Work and life don't need to be separated, but can happen in the same big space, and the factory building and residence overlap partially. LOFT lifestyle allows residents to feel unrestrained freedom in the countryside even in the bustling city.

5. Classic attic

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(SOHO District) is full of old buildings with almost the same architectural style: generous and heavy geometry, red brick exterior walls, old fire exits, dark and old water towers ... It used to be a warehouse area for hoarding textiles, so these buildings are not designed for beauty at all, and the only feeling that gives people is tall, spacious and strong. The usual practice (for poor artists) is to design an open or empty part of a building as a work area, and then build an attic in a certain part of the space to live in. This is the prototype of LOFT. Furniture may be picked up, so you must cover the damaged place with a cloth. The cloth is made by the workshop next door, so it looks unique. The walls of the room are thick and strong, and the area is too large. Nail a few cabinets and you can put things in. There is no need to smooth all the walls with cement, just paint them ... Because these buildings didn't consider the lighting problem at the beginning of design, even if there were huge windows, there was no scenery outside the window, so the walls were painted with gorgeous colors, and they continued to use huge exaggerated and bright industrial lighting equipment after renovation. In order to make a living, artists transform the rooms on the first floor of these buildings into shops and sell their works. They don't have extra money to decorate such a huge room, so the characteristics of this industrial building itself are fully exposed, which forms a huge visual contrast with the window and goods. This visual contradiction has produced a strange effect. "

6.loft reinterprets

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LOFT literally means warehouse and attic, but when the word gradually became fashionable in the late 20th century and evolved into a fashionable living and lifestyle, its connotation has gone far beyond the original meaning of the word.

Origin: LOFT, a way of life, first appeared in new york in the 1940s.

At that time, artists and designers used abandoned industrial factories to separate various spaces such as living, working, socializing, entertainment and collection. In the vast factory, they have built various lifestyles, created performance art, or held exhibitions of works, which made them feel hearty and happy. These factories later became the most personalized, avant-garde and popular places for young people.

In the late 20th century, LOFT, the art of perfect collision between industrialization and post-modernism, gradually evolved into a fashionable way of life and work, and spread widely all over the world. LOFT is always compared with artists, avant-garde, pioneers, 798 and other words.

Comments: The expression of loft in architectural style is described by Qiu Zhijie, a famous conceptual artist and conceptual photographer: "Respect for the established space is combined with bold cutting and reconstruction of the space within economic limits; Exquisite quality of life requires a combination of cheap decoration, and cheap decoration often requires more sophisticated design. This strange established limitation and specific purpose tasks often lead to amazing ingenuity in design. "

"In terms of details, loft buildings around the country use a large number of cantilever structures of glass fiber reinforced plastic frames, which leads to mutual penetration of internal and external landscapes. This not only includes pragmatic lighting design, but also includes the recognition attitude towards the similar environment around, and also marks the impersonal color of people living in it. "

"On the other hand, such buildings are often willing to be exposed, even deliberately showing off the cast-in-place cement beam-column structure, or aestheticizing various industrial residues, which just proves the sense of distance between the residents who reuse these industrial buildings and industrial civilization. Machines, cement and pipes no longer mean tension and depression for them. They are no longer monotonous and indifferent, but the personality and indifference that iron shoes are looking for. "

Living style: LOFT space has great flexibility, and people can create their dream home and dream life at will, without being limited by existing institutions or components. People can make the space completely open or divided, and make it contain personalized aesthetic taste. Since then, the rough column wall, gloomy cement floor and bare steel structure have been separated from the old warehouse. In an ugly old factory building, a new breath is surging, and this is LOFT life.

LOFT symbolizes avant-garde art and the life and creation of artists. It challenges the traditional concept of living such as garden houses and the concept of working and living areas in modern cities. Work and life don't need to be separated, but can happen in the same big space, and the factory building and residence overlap partially. LOFT lifestyle allows residents to feel unrestrained freedom in the countryside even in the bustling city.

7. attic couple

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LOFTER, the title of LOFT lovers, refers to ordinary LOFT lovers who are usually interested in LOFT-style architecture, especially home, out of curiosity or other reasons. They like this fresh lifestyle and are willing to try it. LOFTER is usually a group of young people who pursue fashion. They experience the unique charm of LOFT and look for the heartbreaking utopia they yearn for.