Forge Loft Primär funktion: Inredningsdesign för lägenhet by Jan Sikora

Forge Loft Primär funktion: Inredningsdesign för lägenhet by Jan Sikora is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award i Silver in Interiör- och Utställningsdesign Competition Category.

SilverInteriör· 2021

Forge Loft Primär funktion: Inredningsdesign för lägenhet

by Jan Sikora

Client: ICC Real Estate

A' Design Award i Silver Winner in Interiör Category

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The Design

About Forge Loft Primär funktion: Inredningsdesign för lägenhet

Forge Loft är en loftlägenhet som skapats i en gammal smedja i Leszno, Polen. Smedjan är en del av en pumpfabrik från 1800-talet som omvandlas till ett bostadskomplex. Inredningen bygger på kontraster. Ursprungliga tegelväggar, betonggolv och överliggare har bevarats som råa vittnen om det förflutna. Nya element är neutrala och eleganta och bildar en ram kring den historiska strukturen. Svarta ytor, perforerat stål, ett stålräcke och en spiraltrappa utgör bakgrunden, medan varma accessoarer och mjuka textilier mjukar upp den industriella karaktären. Lägenheten omfattar 120 kvadratmeter.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Silver

Forge Loft Primär funktion: Inredningsdesign för lägenhet är vinnare av A' Design Award i Silver, ett utomordentligt prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas förstklassiga, hänförande och imponerande designverk i toppskiktet. Silvervinnare är oerhört briljanta och utomordentligt kreativa verk som illustrerar sina formgivares enastående expertis, talang och skarpsinne. Forge Loft Primär funktion: Inredningsdesign för lägenhet förväntas vara ett underbart paradexempel som är anmärkningsvärt professionellt och djupt innovativt. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Silver är en mycket uppmärksammad, beundrad uppfinning som gagnar och flyttar fram gränserna för konst, vetenskap, design och teknik. Forge Loft Primär funktion: Inredningsdesign för lägenhet är en skapelse som avundas starkt, som väcker längtan, förmedlar positiva känslor och väcker förundran och häpnad.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Adaptation of an old forge located in Leszno, Poland into an apartment. The Forge is part of a 19th-century factory of pumps, which ICC Real Estate is turning into a living space. Its vast courtyard is built up on all sides with ceramic brick buildings formed into a technological sequence. In this interior, contrast is the key: what is found is dirty and has broken colors (brick, concrete). What is new is neutral but elegant - it created an ideal compositional "frame" for the historical tissue.
Dimensions & Packaging: 120 square metres, size: 13x7m (ground floor), 7x4m (mezzanine - added)
Tags: interior, loft, factory, forge, revitalization, Poland, apartment, residential
Production Technology: The loft space has its original brick walls, a concrete floor, lintels and other raw elements. Black (in many variants and versions) creates the background with fenix matte in kitchen cabinets, perforated steel, the rhythm of a steel railing, and a soft line of spiral stairs. Accessories in warm shades and soft textures break the postindustrial character. A painting of New York made by the designer was the final touch.
Design Challenge: The key to the success of the project was full control of its implementation. The designer had to be very direct, sharp in opinions and determined - it was easy to destroy this place with a few weak decisions. An additional problem was the implementation of the project during the pandemic. A smaller budget, variable work schedule and disorganized process were some of the difficulties that had to be faced.
Research: Pragmatic aproach to research was implemented, along with case study research. Objectives of the research were to understand the space of the factory and keep the existing character of the forge. Case study methodology was used with focus groups data collection. The effect of the revitalisation is yet to be known, but it can bring the area to live again, while celebrating its history.
Inspiration: The space of the old forge was an amazing inspiration, just like the industrial feel of the pump factory surrounding it. It had the perfection of old dirty walls and a unique atmosphere and smell of a forge. The concept emarged in designer's head moments after experiencing the place for the first time. Raw elements, left as a witness of the history, contrasted with softness of fabrics and greenery.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2020 and finished in November 2020.
Operation Flow: The cities we live in are the museums of our ancestors. Walking the streets (in atmosphere, smell, scale or image of the city) we get to know its history. The pump factory has been unused for almost 30 years. Now it gets to live again with a new function, providing its residents with a space that appratiates its history, instead of hiding it.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Jan Sikora, 2020
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Tom Kurek, Forge Loft, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Tom Kurek, Forge Loft, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Tom Kurek, Forge Loft, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Tom Kurek, Forge Loft, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Tom Kurek, Forge Loft, 2020.