{"id":9849,"date":"2026-06-13T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=9849"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:30:21","slug":"built-works-wraps-yogis-cabin-in-east-sussex-with-charred-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/built-works-wraps-yogis-cabin-in-east-sussex-with-charred-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Built Works wraps Yogi’s Cabin in East Sussex with charred wood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK studio Built Works<\/a> has nestled a yoga retreat in an East Sussex woodland, wrapping it with charred timber<\/a> and a raised veranda evoking a traditional Japanese engawa.<\/span><\/p>\n

Named Yogi’s Cabin, the 38-square-metre retreat sits alongside a pond in Great Park Farm.<\/p>\n

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Built Works has created Yogi’s Cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was designed for Architects Holiday<\/a>, a hospitality company set up by the Built Works team that creates retreats designed around singular, restorative practices.<\/p>\n

Following on from the studio’s recently completed Drying Shed Sauna,<\/a> also located in Great Park Farm, Yogi’s Cabin was built around a yoga studio at the centre of its barn-like form.<\/p>\n

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It is nestled in woodland in East Sussex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Most retreat spaces treat wellness as an amenity, something layered on top of a conventional brief,” Built Works founders Will Gowland and Harry Kay told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to make restorative practice the primary architectural programme: the thing that every spatial, material and orientational decision serves,” they added.<\/p>\n

“The east-west axis was set to track natural light across the day: activating eastern light for morning practice, the warmer, lower light of evening from the west for slower, more restorative sessions.”<\/p>\n

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Charred wood wraps the structure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Gowland and Kay, the aesthetic of Yogi’s Cabin is a blend of “Japanese domestic architecture and the agricultural vernaculars of rural East Sussex”, with a deliberately simple form surrounded by a veranda informed by a traditional Japanese engawa and sheltered by deep eaves.<\/p>\n

This engawa space wraps the entire exterior of Yogi’s Cabin, expanding to host a sit-out area by the entrance, an outdoor shower alongside the bedroom and stepping down to a small pontoon next to the central yoga studio space.<\/p>\n

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Its veranda steps down to a pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“You can move, rest, eat or sit in all weathers without ever being fully exposed,” said Gowland and Kay.<\/p>\n

“It extends the usable area of a 38 square metre building significantly, and it’s the reason the cabin feels larger than its footprint suggests.”<\/p>\n