From Greenwich Village in Manhattan to the Shoreditch district in London, loft living has evolved from just transforming leftover industrial spaces into residential ones. Today living in a loft is a statement of contemporary urbanism and a dwelling experiment that remains under development.

Architecture, as a venue of human expression, seems to have found a new level in choosing where and how we live. Individualism has outgrown the old mold of "art picking" and "car and clothes selection" as means of expression into a more stable and persistent form: home selection.

The Loft, once home to Artists In Residence of Soho, has given us via this transformation an opportunity to re-examine the functionality and purpose of open spaces, that was reserved in the past to a perennial, most likely industrial usage.

In our absurd quest to quantify such non-dimensional structures, we came across old silk factories, nested high in the mountains. The choice was then to either replicate them or to simply adopt them. We have opted to do both in designing a structure that resembles the abandoned factories in dimensions but is quite different in purpose.

What follows is an attempt to define a single dwelling loft. We are looking for spirits seeking to find a home and in the process validate our interpretation.