LOFT English original intention is to show “ is under housetop, the attic ” that deposits a thing. But alleged now LOFT indicates those “ are transformed by old plant or old warehouse and those who say is become, rare inside what the wall cuts off is tall carry open space ” , this meaning is born at area of new York SOHO.
At that time, artist and stylist people use deserted industrial factory building, from which space goes out live, the job, gregarious, recreation, collect wait for all sorts of spaces, in the workshop of hollowness, they are tectonic all sorts of lifestyle, produce behavior art, perhaps do work to exhibit. They transform a room that faces a market into the shop, sell oneself work. Because do not have surplus money to decorate so huge room, then the feature of itself of structure of this kind of industry is filled to distribute land bare outside, mix with shopwindow tremendous visual contrast arose between commodity, contradiction of this kind of vision produced the result of your person curiosity.
Because of individual character, avant-courier, these workshop are wide accept youth favour. Going up century after 90 time, LOFT begins to become a kind of artistic fashion in a lot of countries.
Be in our country, the 798 artistic areas of Beijing, of Kunming start a library, the Tian Zifang of Shanghai, M50, the LOFT49 of Hangzhou is famous LOFT artistic area.