Loft
type: Concept
in scheme: typology
notation: typology.loft
definition: A dwelling occupying part of a building put up for another purpose, keeping that building's structure, volume and window pattern instead of being replanned to domestic scale.
alternative label: loft apartment
alternative label: warehouse conversion
broader: apartment
semantic id: typology.loft
source basis: authored
source: @instruments/taxonomy ADR 0001
scope note: NOT the attic sense of the word, which is a room and belongs on SPACE. Heavily used as an aesthetic reference by people who live nowhere near a converted warehouse - the same double duty as `farmhouse`, and the reason there is no `style.loft`.