Rethinking a repeatable format, before designing a single space, is one of the more interesting challenges in the contemporary design of fitness environments. I find that projects capable of turning a brief into an actual system, rather than a one-off fit-out, say a great deal about how identity consistency and constructive flexibility can coexist within the same drawing. It’s an approach that shifts attention from the individual room to the very idea of replicability as a design value in its own right, ahead of aesthetics.
In Madrid, Moof Fitness Studio, designed by practice Canobardin, was conceived as the prototype for an architectural system meant to be replicated across multiple locations while preserving a consistent identity as it adapts to different settings. The gym, organised into two main zones dedicated respectively to floor training and strength work, uses perforated metal panels as the space’s organising device, able to divide areas while preserving visual continuity instead of relying on solid walls. On the facade, the same logic continues through a double skin of perforated metal that filters the relationship between the interior and the street, while folded-metal signage introduces a three-dimensional graphic element that shifts appearance as the light changes. The project restores the idea of a gym as a flexible system rather than a fixed environment, moving the project’s value away from any single location and toward the architecture’s capacity to evolve over time while remaining coherent with its original identity.
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