THE GYM, THE NEWT, SOMERSET

The building stands in the vegetable gardens of the Georgian-style Hadspen House and is designed as a giant window so that hotel guests using the gym have no distractions from looking out onto the garden and the building would not stand out in its historic setting.

To build the walls of the gym the stones from the previous wall were crushed and then compressed.

The front facade is made from a single pane of  glass that is 15 metres wide and 3.3 metres high The large, single pane of glass was precisely engineered with a two-millimetre tolerance and was delivered by road from the factory in southern Europe.

Inside the gym the walls and ceiling are completely lined with beech slats with all the room’s lighting and ventilation concealed between them.