Building on the success of two award winning studios in London, BLOK takes its world class fitness experience to its first site outside of the capital. BLOK Manchester is located in Ducie Street Warehouse, the Northern Quarter, Manchester.

The rich palette of a Victorian warehouse with vaulted brick ceilings and dominant column and beam structure provides an impressive envelope in which Daytrip have formed new insertions to define studio and circulation spaces. By shifting rooms like blocks, Daytrip has created an exciting navigation route, using level changes, cantilevers and around an expressive art installation by Ben Cullen-Williams.

The suspended light sculpture, titled Kinesthesia, entices you into the space, producing a modern take on form and movement within the capacity of light. Built with pulsing LEDs, this free standing installation replicates the awareness of the body through sensations in the muscles, joints and tendons. As movement stops, energy is caught and harnesses into a single sequence within the sculpture. This visual allows the viewer to experience the movement of the bodies as an echo of their own nerve endings.

▼“Kinesthesia”的悬挂式光雕，the suspended light sculpture, titled Kinesthesia

Since BLOK opened in 2016, Daytrip.studio has been appointed to consult the design process along with lighting design studio There’s Light. Together, BLOK and Daytrip push boundaries and look at ways to bring energy and disruption to the existing space through twisting and cutting forms and using exciting vibrant materials which emanate movement and light. Defined by a fusion of Victorian and contemporary design, BLOK Manchester expresses a commanding industrial presence.