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.
