Yoga with a view of the sky. Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio
01/10/2022.
[Somerset] UK
metalocus, DIEGO DOMÍNGUEZ GONZÁLEZ
metalocus, DIEGO DOMÍNGUEZ GONZÁLEZ
British architectural practice Invisible Studio, founded by architect Piers Taylor, has designed this unique yoga studio, located within the garden of the Newt Hotel in Somerset, in a territory far from large urban centres, in the southwest of England.
The new facilities have been built with rammed earth walls and a roof covered with copper tiles, the third intervention designed by Piers Taylor for the Hotel Newt with materials similar to those used for the Gymnasium and the «Beezantium» current exhibition hall and where previously improvised yoga classes were held, and from where the need arose to create a specific space for it.
The new facilities have been built with rammed earth walls and a roof covered with copper tiles, the third intervention designed by Piers Taylor for the Hotel Newt with materials similar to those used for the Gymnasium and the «Beezantium» current exhibition hall and where previously improvised yoga classes were held, and from where the need arose to create a specific space for it.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Site plan. Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio.
Ground floor plan. Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio.
Section. Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio.
Facade. Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio.
Axonometric. Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio.
The new building proposed by Invisible Studio is located just behind the gym. This position means that the proposal is resolved with an impressive entry of overhead light into the yoga studio room, an opening made with a large 11-meter skylight with double insulated glazing that bathes the entire interior in light and directs the gaze only towards heaven.
Inside, the studio is covered with beech wood slats, which provide spatial continuity between the straight walls and the curves of the roof, creating an abstract and at the same time warm space.
The yoga studio, like the gym, is built from the same rammed earth, made up of a mix of earth, cement and local limestone that gives it a distinctive reddish hue. Details have been added in copper, a material that was also used in Invisible Studio's previous projects at the Newt Hotel in Somerset.
Inside, the studio is covered with beech wood slats, which provide spatial continuity between the straight walls and the curves of the roof, creating an abstract and at the same time warm space.
The yoga studio, like the gym, is built from the same rammed earth, made up of a mix of earth, cement and local limestone that gives it a distinctive reddish hue. Details have been added in copper, a material that was also used in Invisible Studio's previous projects at the Newt Hotel in Somerset.
Yoga with a view of the sky. Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio.
Description of project by Invisible Studio
The new Yoga Studio at the Newt Hotel in Somerset is the third building at the Hotel completed by Invisible Studio and is a complementary building to both the Gym (Room in a Productive Garden) (to which it sits adjacent) and the Beezantium (both published on Dezeen). While the Gym had a single view of the vegetable garden via its enormous window, the Yoga Studio has a single view of the sky via its enormous 11m rooflight, made from a single insulated double-glazed unit.
The yoga studio is lined entirely with beech slats, providing a warm and immersive sanctuary-like space. The need for the yoga studio grew out of carrying out informal and impromptu yoga classes in the Beezantium while the hotel was waiting for the exhibition fit out to be carried out, and the hotel asked for a similar top-lit space but located behind the Gym.
The Yoga studio uses the same rammed stone as the Gym, made from local limestone that gives it its distinctive red colour. The copper detailing also borrows from the family of materials established by the Beezantium.
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Architects
Invisible Studio. Architect.- Piers Taylor.
Collaborators
Structural Engineers.- Hydrock with GLASS Limited.
M&E consultant.- E3 Consulting.
Planning Consultant.- AZ Studio.
CDM co-ordinator.- Hookway Partnership.
M&E consultant.- E3 Consulting.
Planning Consultant.- AZ Studio.
CDM co-ordinator.- Hookway Partnership.
Client
Emily Estates
Main contractor
Ken Biggs.
Area
100 sqm.
Dates
Start on site July 2021.
Completion April 2022.
Completion April 2022.
Location
Somerset, United Kingdom.
Photography
Piers Taylor. Invisible Studio
Invisible Studio is an innovative and award-winning architecture practice founded by Dr Piers Taylor. Taylor is a Chartered Architect, was the inaugural Studio Master at the Architectural Association for the Design & Make Programme at Hooke Park, a former Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge, an external examiner at the Arts University, Bournemouth and the Convenor of Studio in the Woods. Taylor was also a PhD candidate at the University of Reading and received their anniversary scholarship funding for his Doctoral research.
Invisible Studio aims to be a different organisation from conventional practice. They work internationally and very locally, in a variety of fields and at a variety of scales. They operate from a self-built studio located in a working woodland which they also manage as an ongoing forest enterprise alongside practice, and have pioneered a number of academic programmes that rethink the relationship between design and making.
With each project, we aim to realise something extraordinary. They are interested in going about the process of architecture in a different way – a way where clients, users, collaborators and makers are all part of the process of design, and sometimes construction.
Their work encompasses a number of seminal buildings from ecologically sensitive self builds through to schools, community and public buildings including the new project at East Quay Watchet and large-scale urban environments. Their work has been published widely and internationally and has won a plethora of awards including a number of RIBA National, Regional and Sustainability Awards, Wood Awards, WAN Awards, the AJ Small Projects Award and has been shortlisted for the Stephen Lawrence Prize.
In terms of technology, they prefer to use passive principles to aid building performance and use these principles to define the premise of a building.
Current/Past Invisible Studio collaborators include:
Charley Brentnall, Kate Darby, Lucien Castaing Taylor, Verena Paravel, Neringa Stonyte, David Robinson, Alan Matthews, Tara Breen, Nozomi Nakabayashi, Holly Briggs, Steven George, Bernardo Mori, Alfie Dring, Liz Matthews, Sue Phillips, Piers Taylor, Grant Associates, Gianni Botsford, Mike Wells, Bill Gething, Imogen Taylor, Cuffer Matthews, Bernard Twist, Simon Schofield, Niki Turner, Hannah Durham, Caitlin Izard, Buro Happold, LT Studio, Greengauge, Onion Collective, Johanna Gibbons/JLG Landscape Architects, Gemma Wheeler, Nick Perchard, James Symon, Architectural Association, Louise Wray, Giovanni Meta, James Eagle, David Connor, Carpenter Oak, The Dartington Estate, Westonbirt Arboretum, AA Design & Make, The University of Reading, Mole Architects, Charles Holland, Xylotek, EAST QUAY WATCHET.
Invisible Studio aims to be a different organisation from conventional practice. They work internationally and very locally, in a variety of fields and at a variety of scales. They operate from a self-built studio located in a working woodland which they also manage as an ongoing forest enterprise alongside practice, and have pioneered a number of academic programmes that rethink the relationship between design and making.
With each project, we aim to realise something extraordinary. They are interested in going about the process of architecture in a different way – a way where clients, users, collaborators and makers are all part of the process of design, and sometimes construction.
Their work encompasses a number of seminal buildings from ecologically sensitive self builds through to schools, community and public buildings including the new project at East Quay Watchet and large-scale urban environments. Their work has been published widely and internationally and has won a plethora of awards including a number of RIBA National, Regional and Sustainability Awards, Wood Awards, WAN Awards, the AJ Small Projects Award and has been shortlisted for the Stephen Lawrence Prize.
In terms of technology, they prefer to use passive principles to aid building performance and use these principles to define the premise of a building.
Current/Past Invisible Studio collaborators include:
Charley Brentnall, Kate Darby, Lucien Castaing Taylor, Verena Paravel, Neringa Stonyte, David Robinson, Alan Matthews, Tara Breen, Nozomi Nakabayashi, Holly Briggs, Steven George, Bernardo Mori, Alfie Dring, Liz Matthews, Sue Phillips, Piers Taylor, Grant Associates, Gianni Botsford, Mike Wells, Bill Gething, Imogen Taylor, Cuffer Matthews, Bernard Twist, Simon Schofield, Niki Turner, Hannah Durham, Caitlin Izard, Buro Happold, LT Studio, Greengauge, Onion Collective, Johanna Gibbons/JLG Landscape Architects, Gemma Wheeler, Nick Perchard, James Symon, Architectural Association, Louise Wray, Giovanni Meta, James Eagle, David Connor, Carpenter Oak, The Dartington Estate, Westonbirt Arboretum, AA Design & Make, The University of Reading, Mole Architects, Charles Holland, Xylotek, EAST QUAY WATCHET.
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