Inspire Pilates
Lighting Design That’s an Exercise in Alignment & Flexibility
An incredibly stylish Pilates studio. A refuge for those wanting to express themselves with confidence. A venue with an incredible potential to evolve. Inspire Pilates is a lot of things to a lot of people, and lighting control is critical to that experience.
In a fascinating marriage of design, psychology, emotion and human response, ambience performed numerous light level experiments to perfect scenes using Casambi according to how the space was going to be habituated.
This resulted in incredibly adaptable lighting for different needs, these include varying scenes for pregnancy class, workshops, strength classes and of course, something a little different for cheeky drinks after dark.
INTERIOR DESIGN
Bergman & Co
LIGHTING DESIGN
ambience lighting
AWARDS
Winner LIT Lighting Design Awards (Wellness & Health)
Casambi Awards 2024 finalist
Darc Awards Shortlisted
Dezeen Awards
“Lighting is pivotal to creating a warm inviting sanctuary, forging a safe haven for female empowerment and health.”
Sharlene Jayawardena, Lighting Designer
Natural light works hand-in-hand with the artificial lighting throughout the space, and in some places, luminaires work to mimic the natural light. None more striking than the hallmark of the space, the utterly mesmerising stretched fabric false skylight in the staircase. Inspired by traditional Japanese use of light, the RGBW stretched fabric with Bluetooth dimming features a rigorously developed light source that encompasses the perimeter.
The brighter glow around the outskirts gradually and evenly peters off, in an arresting gradient derived from how one envisages the sun. And because it’s RGBW, the staircase can alter modes for different moments – like those cheeky drinks mode, which can become little bolder, and the pink also becomes a little hotter.
Showcased in the main studio is the tunable white, up-indirect linear pendants matched to the terracotta colouring of the finishes. These luminaires are sublime in their elegance and simplicity of design. They were selected and optimised to give illumination the freedom to bounce from the ceiling throughout space.
This was created so clientele are not staring directly into cumbersome light while performing their routines. The pendants are also strategically positioned in line with the Pilates machines so that at any angle in the coloured mirror they align.
Inspire Pilates 2.0
A new upstairs space for the multi-awarded Inspire Pilates, Melbourne collab with Bergman & Co
With the goal being to illuminate without any direct light while maintaining consistency and discretion, ambience used ‘upside down’ lights and uplighting with Australian-made Symphony Lighting’s Rondo (tunable 1800k – 3k to address the mood challenge) was used to push light across the space. ambience worked with other spatial objects and materials such as the tinted mirror and felt tiles to add to the lighting effect and output.
The hero luminaire of the space is a multi-layered vertical custom aluminium shroud wall light to bring some playfulness through colour into the space. The luminaire is designed to illuminate from multiple directions at once. Facing the room is RGBW, and for wall grazing effect, we wanted a subtle glow, so to face the wall, we used a Medley tunable 1800k – 3k.
