Your Guide to Delivering Co-Living Developments that Work — Ackroyd Lowrie
An interior precedent for co-living common areas, showcasing how sheer floor-to-ceiling curtains soften harsh daylight and contrast with heavy exposed concrete.
- What we like about this project
- The floor-to-ceiling sheer curtain spans the entire background wall, turning what could be a harsh glass facade into a soft light box.
Materials
- concrete
- ceramic-tile
- textile
- wood
- glass
Visual identifiers
- sheer-curtains
- tiled-bar
- exposed-concrete
- co-living-lounge
Style tags
- contemporary
- warm-minimal
- residential-communal
Visual tags
- co-living
- communal-space
- soft-daylight
- warm-materials
- interior-architecture
- Geometry
- Open-plan commercial or co-living common area featuring a central tiled bar counter against a towering backdrop of full-height pleated sheer curtains.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete flat slab ceiling supported by perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- Generous ceiling height with a long horizontal bar counter creating a comfortable, human-scaled communal zone.
- Lighting
- Strong, diffused daylight washes through full-height window walls, supplemented by minimal pendant lights hung over the counter.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and active simultaneously, marked by motion-blurred figures and glowing translucent fabrics.
- Environmental context
- Interior common space of a modern multi-residential or co-living development with glimpses of outdoor greenery and circulation.
- Spatial experience
- The space balances the heavy tectonic presence of raw concrete ceilings overhead with the soft, glowing diffusion of natural light filtering through sheer curtains.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical pleats in the sheer curtain echo the spacing of pendant fixtures and bar stools across the foreground.
- Style reading
- Contemporary co-living interior
- Program
- Co-living community lounge and bar
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- concrete, ceramic-tile, textile, wood, glass
- Visual identifiers
- sheer-curtains, tiled-bar, exposed-concrete, co-living-lounge
- Style tags
- contemporary, warm-minimal, residential-communal
- Visual tags
- co-living, communal-space, soft-daylight, warm-materials, interior-architecture
- Geometry
- Open-plan commercial or co-living common area featuring a central tiled bar counter against a towering backdrop of full-height pleated sheer curtains.
- Structural guess
- Cast-in-place concrete flat slab ceiling supported by perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- Generous ceiling height with a long horizontal bar counter creating a comfortable, human-scaled communal zone.
- Lighting
- Strong, diffused daylight washes through full-height window walls, supplemented by minimal pendant lights hung over the counter.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and active simultaneously, marked by motion-blurred figures and glowing translucent fabrics.
- Environmental context
- Interior common space of a modern multi-residential or co-living development with glimpses of outdoor greenery and circulation.
- Spatial experience
- The space balances the heavy tectonic presence of raw concrete ceilings overhead with the soft, glowing diffusion of natural light filtering through sheer curtains.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical pleats in the sheer curtain echo the spacing of pendant fixtures and bar stools across the foreground.
- Style reading
- Contemporary co-living interior
- Program
- Co-living community lounge and bar
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior