Balance Gym - Thomas Circle
Tying It Together

An existing gym on the interior of a downtown block needed to have presence on the street. A ground lease was acquired in a nearby building with street frontage and the design was driven by the need to create a series of events along a path that would connect the two spaces.

We first opened the space with larger windows both for light and visibility to attract potential new clients. Then we simplified the interior to create one dominant linear space to draw clients to the back where a garage door opened onto an exercise space where a parking lot had been. This provided the critical visual/physical link to the main gym inside the block.