郓城县城市总体规划图:What is LOFT?

"LOFT" in the English dictionary to explain (Source: Baidu Dictionary):

n. [C]
   1. Loft, attic
   2. Stable floor
   3. (Church, etc.) loft
   4. (Warehouses, workshops, etc. above) does not separate the floor
   5. 【Golf】 Golf (club) angle; hitting a high degree of
vt.
   1. 【Golf】 To golf (ball) high hit out
   2. ... Stored in the attic (or stable floor, etc.) within
vi.
   1. 【Golf】 Hit golf golf

       LOFT in the Oxford Dictionary's explanation is "under the roof, attic storage of things." But now the so-calledLOFT alleged that those "old warehouse from an old factory or adapted from, few interior partitions of the tall open space", this meaning was born in New York SOHO district. LOFT's content is tall and open space, with mobility, development, transparency, artistic and other features! After the nineties in the twentieth century, LOFT become a fashion hit the art world.

1. What is LOFT

      If LOFT is derived from the birth of impoverished artists turning waste into wealth, then as a way of life today, or trendy LOFT has completely evolved into a conspicuous consumption.

2. Origin

   40 years of the 20th century, when, LOFT way of life that live there the first time in New York.

   At that time, artists and designers use abandoned industrial plant, from which separate the living, working, socializing, entertainment, collection and other space in the vast factory, they constructed a variety of lifestyles, creative performance art, or do work development, dripping Hearty and pleasure in life. These plants later become the most personal, most avant-garde, the most popular local youth.

   In the late 20th century, LOFT industrialization and post-modernism that perfect collision of art, gradually evolved into a kind of fashion to live and work, and widespread in the world.

3. Elements

     Loft of the defining elements include: tall open space, the upper and lower layer of the duplex structure, similar to the theatrical stage production, the staircase and beams; mobility, accessibility within the Unit; transparency and reduce the degree of privacy; open, inter-family comprehensive portfolio; art, usually the owners to decide all the style and pattern.

4. Mode of living

    LOFT space has great flexibility, one can arbitrarily create their own dream home, dream of life, did not have the constraints of institutions or structures. It can completely open space can also be its division, so that it implies personal aesthetic taste. Since then, the rough wall column, gray concrete floors, exposed steel structure from the old warehouse has been synonymous with an old factory building between the homely, a new atmosphere is surging, and this is LOFT life.

    LOFT symbol of avant-garde art and the artist's life and writing, it houses such a traditional garden living concept has posed a challenge to the modern city work and living area to challenge the concept, work and live without separation, can occur in a large space with in plant and some overlap between residential. LOFT way of life to the Home even in prosperous cities, and still feel as uninhibited when living in a free country.

5. Classic LOFT

    (SOHO area) are all on the first of the old building, and construction style is almost a look: elegant geometry block, red brick facades, old-fashioned fire escapes, black and old water tower ... ... here is the accumulation of textiles before storage area, so these buildings is not designed for aesthetics, it gives the feeling that the only tall, spacious and strong. (Poverty of the artist) is common practice: the large room or building in an empty part of the design challenge into the work area, and then in the space of a local build a loft for living, and this is the prototype of LOFT. Furniture may be picked up, so use statistics fabric cover damaged areas, fabric is made next door workshop, so the look is unique; very thick walls of the room is very strong, and too large, and nail some of Court board can put things; will erase all the walls with cement is not necessary, fresh coat of paint on it ... ... because the building design at the beginning, simply do not consider the issue of lighting, and even has a huge window,the window also no scenery to speak of, so the walls were painted with bright colors, huge exaggeration bright lighting industry has been adapted to use. To make a living artists to the street floor of these buildings the room transformed into shops, sell their work. They do not have extra money to the decoration of the room so great, so that the characteristics of industrial building itself was fully naked, exposed, and between the window and commodities had a huge visual contrast, such a vision had a curious contradiction effect.

6.loft to explain

   LOFT, the literal meaning of the warehouse, loft means, but the word in the late twentieth century gradually evolved into a fashionable and stylish living and way of life, its meaning far beyond the original meaning of this word.
 
   Origin: 20th century, when the 40's, LOFT way of life that live there the first time in New York.

   At that time, artists and designers use abandoned industrial plant, from which separate the living, working, socializing, entertainment, collection and other space in the vast factory, they constructed a variety of lifestyles, creative performance art, or do work development, dripping Hearty and pleasure in life. These plants later become the most personal, most avant-garde, the most popular local youth.

   In the late 20th century, LOFT industrialization and post-modernism that perfect collision of art, gradually evolved into a kind of fashion to live and work, and widespread in the world. Today, LOFT always artists, avant-garde, vanguard, compared to 798 words.

   Comments: loft performance of architectural styles, famous conceptual artist, conceptual photographer Qiu this description: "The respect and given space within the space in the economy limiting the bold cut, combined reconstruction; sophisticated demands and low quality of life fitting combination, and cheap decoration often require more sophisticated design, which has a strange set limits and the specific purpose of the task, often leading to design amazing ingenuity. "

   "Details, the loft building around the extensive use of glass and steel structure outside the framework of challenges, leading to internal and external landscape of the mutual penetration, which in addition to practical lighting design, but also includes the environment surrounding the recognition of similar attitudes, but also marks the live people's living conditions during their non-enjoy privacy color. "

   "On the other hand, such buildings are often willing to expose, or even deliberately cast concrete beams and columns to show off the structure, or to kinds of aesthetic industrial residues, which proves the re-use of industrial buildings in this district who have their own industrial civilization sense of distance. machinery, cement, pipes, for them, no longer means stress and depression, is no longer a monotonous and cold, but with hard to find beyond the pale and cool personality. "

    Mode of living: LOFT space has great flexibility, one can arbitrarily create their own dream home, dream of life, did not have the constraints of institutions or structures. It can completely open space can also be its division, so that it implies personal aesthetic taste. Since then, the rough wall column, gray concrete floors, exposed steel structure from the old warehouse has been synonymous with an old factory building between the homely, a new atmosphere is surging, and this is LOFT life.
 
    LOFT symbol of avant-garde art and the artist's life and writing, it houses such a traditional garden living concept has posed a challenge to the modern city work and living area to challenge the concept, work and live without separation, can occur in a large space with in plant and some overlap between residential. LOFT way of life to the Home even in prosperous cities, and still feel as uninhibited when living in a free country.

7. Other forms of LOFT

Commercial LOFT

     Business LOFT is five meters high beams, and the second layer as storage or office space construction. There  are usually two-story office in the factory.

Dock LOFT

     For workers in the shipyard in a noose in the adjustment of the rise of the region or the workplace.

Terminal LOFT

     Workers prepare for launching a big vessel and open space.

Church LOFT

      Some churches have choir LOFT, when the choir can sing and stand or sit in the area. Sometimes, a church

      organist also LOFT.

8.LOFTER--LOFT lovers

    LOFTER, LOFT enthusiasts title, refers to common LOFT enthusiasts, such people are usually out of curiosity or for other reasons on the LOFT style building in particular, interested in home. They like this new way of life and are willing to try. LOFTER fashion is usually a group of young people, they experience the unique flavor of LOFT, looking for their heartbreaking longing Utopia.

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