This highly regarded yoga venue involved the creation of a light-filled oasis of calm in Primrose Hill to provide yoga studios, treatment rooms, changing rooms and café space. Within a tight budget, the detailing was carefully considered to enhance the purity of the space. The site, a pre-war factory building with steel roof structure and large windows, offered a blank canvas ready for a simple and unpretentious fit-out. The ground floor welcomes the visitor with a café which can break out into a small bamboo planted yard in good weather. The material palette is deliberately humble; the client’s brief was to try to use as much wood as possible and as little metal as made sense. The door handle was purpose designed in a pure form to exemplify the simple ethos. In the studios, white Dalsouple rubber flooring was used to create a luminous effect, and walls and steelwork were painted white. In the ground floor more down to earth colours were used. Lighting was kept very simple, discharge sources bouncing off the ceiling planes. Obscured coloured film was used over windows partly to preserve privacy and partly to bring fun and colour into the potentially austere studios “[They] have a unique gift for looking at an unremarkable space and visualising the remarkable. Their ‘everything is possible’ attitude makes them a joy to work with and their attention to detail is second to none.” Tina Gaudoin, Co-founder of Triyoga and Style Director, Saturday Times Magazine