Loft 32 Zlín

The loft is located on the 8th floor of a former multi-story manufacturing building in the Zlín Baťa factory area, with a view of the green core of the city. The ambition of the interior is to maximally integrate the cityscape into the apartment space. The loft does not employ the usual material citations of the industrial context in its interior design, instead creating an authentic dialogue between the abstractly designed space and the view framed by the Zlín skyscraper and the valley of the Southern Slopes. The interior space works with the gradual opening of individual epicenters of the apartment, allowing for zoning into social and private areas through a multi-stage gradation of individual height levels, rather than a sharp division. The interior is defined as a composition of a main freely shaped social space supported by a bent furniture partition and a built-in kitchen that conceals two rooms, a bathroom, an entrance foyer, and a "secret" staircase. Through this partition, we enter the main elevated space defined by an inserted ramp ascending from the living kitchen with a dining nook through a children’s corner, which is nestled into the window sill, and a bay defined by two atypical sofas leading into the bedroom with a built-in circular bathtub. The shape embedded into the floors and walls of the interior is formed by a structure assembled from triangles that spirals around the center of the layout, creating a podium that also serves as an audience area directed towards the view of the city. The rotating structure integrates atypical sofa elements and smoothly connects to the cladding of the vertical walls separating the private parts of the interior. The material solution is a variation of subtle shades of white-stained birch plywood, white leatherette upholstery, and white PVC flooring, accented by glass partitioning elements of railings and sliding partitions in the bedroom, high-gloss lacquered kitchen cabinetry, and mosaic tiles. In this relatively small area with a minimal height allowing for a two-level arrangement, a generous three-dimensional concept emerges with many hidden complementary spaces within the recesses of the main structure.