A top-floor transformation in Prenzlauer Berg, Verdant Loft marries the raw texture of Berlin's prewar fabric with a luminous interior garden.
Occupying the uppermost floor of a Gründerzeit apartment block in Prenzlauer Berg, Verdant Loft converts a warren of small rooms into a single, flowing domestic landscape. The existing masonry structure — its thick walls, deep reveals, and generous ceiling heights — provided the material palette from the outset.
A central conservatory atrium draws daylight deep into the plan and anchors an interior planting scheme that blurs the boundary between inside and outside. The loft reads as a greenhouse that happens to contain a home.
"The best urban rooms are those that smuggle the outside world in."— Marcus Thorne, Principal Architect