Rooftop Gym in West Village, NYC

walnut gym volume beside the training screen, open bay lit with dumbbells

Rooftop home gym in collaboration with Arsight Studio

We built all the millwork for a rooftop home gym in West Village. The room reads as one walnut wall, running floor to ceiling and around the corner. Behind its doors are the storage, the rails for towels and mats, and a concealed fridge.

One walnut wall

slat wall open beside the screen, bay lit from above with rails and dumbbells — The same corner, open. The bay is lit from above, and the pocket door has slid back into the cabinet

Vertical slats run in bands, with plain panels between them. Behind the doors are the storage, the rails for towels and mats, and a concealed panel-ready fridge.

walnut slat wall wrapping a corner, with a training screen set flush in a plain panel — Closed, the cabinet reads as one walnut wall. The training screen sits flush in a plain panel, and the slats wrap the corner under the raked ceiling

Pocket doors and bays

The cabinets that open use HAWA Concepta pocket doors. Each door pivots out and slides into the cabinet, and the face sits flush when it is shut. Each bay is lit from above. The drawer has a recessed finger pull, not a handle, and metal rails hold towels and yoga mats.

open walnut bay with metal rails, a finger-pull drawer and dumbbells on a lit shelf — Inside an open bay: metal rails for towels and mats, a drawer with a recessed finger pull, and a lit shelf

The mirror is a screen

The panel that reads as a mirror is the training screen. It shows you how to do the training, and it sits flush in one of the plain panels, so it reads as part of the wall.

The ceiling is not one level. The soffit steps down and rakes across the top of the cabinet, so the top of the slat field runs on a slope, and every slat end is cut to fit it, one at a time. A lot of the mitres were cut on site.

The whole build took one month, ceiling included.