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Husband-and-wife team Zoe Chan and Merlin Eayrs, the creative duo behind Chan + Eayrs, are true home makers in both literal and figurative terms. Not only do they craft bespoke homes from the ground up, from finding the right site to designing and building it down to the last detail, they also live in the property for a while before selling and moving on to their next project. Untethered from the demands of clients, and the pressure of developers, their holistic, focused approach—they only work on one home at a time— ensures complete creative freedom and rewards them with the rare satisfaction as architects to get to experience what they have created first-hand. Chan + Eayrs’ latest home, The Beldi, a converted loft space in a former shoe factory in Shoreditch, London, gracefully exemplifies their concept-driven and detail-orientated home making approach. Drawing from the traditional courtyard houses they encountered on their travels, from the Moroccan “riads” they visited in Marrakech where they got married, to those in Suzhou, China, where they travelled with their young daughter, the once industrial space has been re-imagined as an open-plan oasis of soothing simplicity and handcrafted beauty, resplendent in verdant hues and natural textures: lime plaster walls, linen shutters, limed oak brush timber carpentry, and Beldi tiles—a type of terracotta tile traditionally handcrafted in Morocco from which the residence takes its name. 
Photo by Taran Wilkhu. 
The loft occupies an entire floor of a converted factory building, a rare occurrence which was one of the main reasons this site was chosen, along with the abundance of natural light, courtesy of the 30 original Crittall windows on all four sides, and the generous views over the treetops and Leonard’s Church next door. Instead of brainstorming over drafting boards or sketch books, the first thing Chan and Eayrs did when they acquired the property was to take out all of the walls and temporarily live in the empty space in order “to understand the light volumes and temperature at all times of the day”, as they explain. What came out of this pedagogical sojourn |
