Industrial loft renovation

This project transforms a former industrial space—once home to a printing workshop—into a bright and contemporary loft. The original structure offered great spatial potential but lacked natural light, leaving the interior dark and inward-looking.

To bring light into the depth of the space, we carried out a structural intervention that introduced a new interior patio. This opening allows daylight to filter through the loft and organizes the different living areas around a calm, luminous core.

Several original elements were carefully preserved during the renovation, including the masonry and solid brick walls, as well as the old wooden windows. Traces of the original door openings in the brick factory walls were kept, alongside the windows, allowing the history of the building to remain legible. These materials carry the memory of the building’s industrial past and give the space its distinctive character.

An existing mezzanine level was also retained and reinterpreted as part of the new spatial sequence. This allowed us to design a sculptural staircase that becomes a central element of the project, connecting the different levels while activating the vertical dimension of the loft. Some of the staircase treads were crafted by reusing slats from the original solid wood parquet, while other pieces of the same wood were repurposed to create a built-in bench, giving new life to the material and reinforcing the continuity between the building’s past and its new use.

Rather than erasing the traces of the former workshop, our intervention embraces them.

We sought a balance between preservation and transformation, allowing the existing textures and imperfections to coexist with contemporary living. The result is a quiet and luminous interior where past and present meet—an industrial shell reinterpreted as a warm and open domestic landscape.