The challenge in this project was developing a cohesive design that combines two seemingly unrelated activities in one commercial space. The client, the Mind Body Yoga and Nutrition Center, aims to promote health and a healthy lifestyle through yoga and fomenting healthy
eating habits offering cooking classes in their demonstration kitchen. The client wants to bring awareness to the community of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle offering community classes (yoga and cooking) and wellness seminars, workshops and counseling along with classes offered to patrons.

The design goal is to provide a safe, family-friendly space to empower the individual to make positive lifestyle changes in order to affect the community as a whole. Focusing on the education and community aspect of the client’s mandate to inform how to shape the space. The conceptual basis for the design stems from the verb to radiate –to diverge or spread from or as if from a central point. Three main activity areas are provided –yoga studio, lounge and demo kitchen— surrounded by secondary seating space at the perimeter in a loose sitting arrangement that can be changed depending on the interaction taking place in the space. The space is to conform to how the community interacts. Color was only used in the three main activity areas to emphasize the hierarchy of the spaces, while the rest of the space is to be all white.