The clients -- husband, wife and then 3-year-old daughter -- bought this historic loft in South Park and needed a flexible space for living as well as occasional home-based work. The budget was extremely limited, so at the outset we decided to limit the scope of the project and decided to sculpt the space as 'permanent furniture'.

Re-visualized as a large inter-connected piece of fixed millwork, we defined separate zones without losing visual continuity between any of them and re-configured any extra square feet of space for flexible use. An existing under-utilized utility room was reduced in size and redesigned as an open workspace using inter-connected shelving. Storage was taken as a design challenge and brought to the forefront as a new partition wall. An interior window was created in the child's bedroom to enable supervision on their growing child in her play area. The shelving in her play area was designed to accommodate a growing child's uses, as a series of steps. All wiring and cable infrastructure in the entertainment area was concealed within the millwork, to create a compact yet seamless mixed-use space.

Location

Downtown, Los Angeles, California

Year Completed

2012