COOPER LOFTS

Originally built as a cooperage in the late nineteenth century, Cooper Lofts is a an adaptive reuse of a three-story brick and heavy timber frame building in Richmond’s historic Shockoe Valley & Tobacco Row district. The building most recently operated as a night club before being sitting vacant and deteriorating for several years. All three floors were renovated into new multi-family apartment units with a mix of one and two bedroom units.

Celebrating the well-preserved and muscular character of the historic building, the existing heavy timber frame was left exposed and where possible, new interior partition walls within units have been held below the floor framing above. The design of the interior intervention is intended to emphasize a clear differentiation but complimentary relationship between old and new.

Location: Richmond, Virginia
Date: 2020
Size: 13,812 SF