Natural Light and the Design of Views Where natural light is available, it should be used deliberately rather than managed reactively. A gym with north-facing windows in London will have different natural light conditions to one with a full-height south-facing elevation. The specification of artificial lighting needs to understand these conditions and complement rather than compete with them. Solar gain is a real consideration in fully glazed training spaces, particularly in

Lighting is the element of interior design most capable of transformation and the one most often reduced to a technical specification. Lumens, colour temperature, IP ratings: these are necessary technicalities, but they describe function rather than experience. In a gym environment, the gap between functional lighting and considered lighting is a massive difference in the overall look and feel of the space. The same space, lit differently, can feel energising or enervating, f