Loft de la Gauchetière is a beautiful industrial loft located in Montreal, Canada, designed in 2020 by Future Simple Studio.

Description
The Rue de la Gauchetiere project is a thoughtful apartment renovation in a hundred year-old heritage building near the Old Port of Montreal. The studio updates a loft through an elegant and unexpected architectural intervention that accommodates flexibility and togetherness for family living, while celebrating the space?s unique industrial character.
With flexibility and light as the top priority, Future Simple Studio conceptualized alternatives for the ubiquitous ?drywall with swing door? room that dictates much of residential interiors. This led to a simple and adaptable concept: a box inside the box. Two glazed convertible wooden volumes are thoughtfully arranged within the concrete space. They?re programmed as bedrooms and used as spatial tools to organize the residential functions?kitchen, living, dining, study, reading, and exercise? which take shape on their periphery. At once object and architecture, each is crafted as a bespoke kit of parts including everything from ceiling panels and mullions, to flooring and furniture. The bedrooms are also outfitted with a series of automated blinds?both sheer and blackout?that transform them from open spaces to semi or fully private rooms. In the evening, when the sheer blinds are drawn and the lights are on, both rooms appear as floating lanterns in an open plan crea...