Egg of the Universe South Eveleigh Yoga Studio by Brewer Architects.

With an original location in Sydney’s Rozelle, Egg of the Universe have expanded to South Eveleigh with a new yoga studio and café. Set in two adjacent tenancies, Adam Brewer of Brewer Architects designed a whole foods café and yoga studios accessed off a welcoming foyer space. Named the ‘Earth’ and ‘Sky’ rooms respectively, each yoga studio embodies a different design and feel.

“We felt that because one of the studios was destined to not have any windows, we needed this room to feel amazing and really like a jewellery box,” explains Brewer.

He achieved this by cladding the walls, floor and ceiling in plywood, suspended on a series of solid timber posts and beams. A backlit, glowing, laser-cut circle behind the teacher’s platform forms the focal point of the room. In the studio that does have windows, the aesthetic is light and bright with white walls and ceiling, and a plywood floor. Phillippa Carnemolla’s artwork ‘The Reunion Angel’ is backlit behind the teacher’s platform, forming the focal point here.

An inviting foyer features a plywood-clad bench seat to one side, encouraging visitors to make themselves comfortable. A large cornice blends the walls into the ceiling while running the outdoor pavers inside provides seamless integration with the external environment. Further details include a backlit egg-shaped cutout in the foyer joinery unit that matches the circle in the Yoga Studio. The foyer also has direct access to a meditation room, a tall space where the architects emphasised the height of the room with fresh white paint and sconce lighting.

The Egg of the Universe cafe has a similar feel to the yoga studios, featuring a palette of plywood wall cladding and terrazzo slabs and tiles on the coffee bar.

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[Images courtesy of Adam Brewer. Photography by Roger D’Souza.]