Document #004

liberty loft

This work was completed while working at PLY Architecture in 2009. Karl Daubmann and Craig Borrum were principals of PLY Architecture at the time.

plyplus.com (Borum)
daub-lab.com (Daubmann)

Principal: Craig Borum
Designers: Alex Timmer and Ngoc Thy,
Ann Arbor, MI, 2011

This project for a two-story apartment in a converted racket club in downtown Ann Arbor reconfigures and redistributes the spatial arrangements of the apartment within the 20’x40’volume of an existing racquetball court. The tight spatial constraints and the single exterior orientation led to a spatial strategy of consolidation. Special emphasis was placed on the spiral stair as a necessary element use to minimize the space allocated to vertical circulation and as the main space defining element- unfurling it across the width of the apartment.

I designed this spiral start to meet code and cordinated its fabrication with a local metal worker. The handrail was assemble on site.

Each element of the liberty loft was treated as a design opportunity from the ceiling to the bathroom to the translucent wall that separated the mezzanine bedroom from the downstairs.

studiotmmr plyarch

2011