Prakriti Wellness Studio

The Prakriti Wellness Studio brief arrived with three words underlined: natural, healing, alive. What followed was one of the most creatively satisfying interior projects in EcoBuild Studio's history — a 4,600 sq ft premium yoga, meditation, and wellness studio on a first-floor Bandra West address, transformed from a conventional retail fit-out into a sanctuary of biophilic design that Architectural Digest India subsequently featured as one of the ten most beautiful interiors completed in India in 2024.

The centrepiece of the design is a 9-metre living wall that spans the full height and width of the studio's main entrance and reception area. The wall features 47 species of tropical ferns, mosses, philodendrons, and air plants, maintained by an automated sub-irrigation system and LED grow lighting calibrated to the specific light requirements of each species zone. The wall is not merely decorative — its evapotranspiration contributes meaningfully to passive humidity regulation in the reception space, and research confirms that its visual impact reduces visitor cortisol levels within minutes of arrival.

All wall surfaces throughout the studio are finished in hand-polished hydraulic lime plaster — a traditional technique requiring considerable skill, applied in three coats with a burnished final finish that creates walls of extraordinary luminosity and depth. The lime's natural alkalinity makes it inherently antifungal — particularly valuable in a yoga studio where high occupancy generates significant moisture — and its vapour permeability allows the walls to breathe, contributing to the exceptional indoor air quality that clients consistently remark upon.

Flooring throughout uses natural cork tiles — warm, resilient, sound-absorbing, and harvested from cork oak bark without harming the tree. Cork's natural compressibility provides ideal cushioning for yoga practice, and its thermal properties mean the floor always feels warm underfoot regardless of the air temperature. The studio's joinery — reception desk, retail shelving, changing room lockers, and treatment room furniture — is crafted entirely from FSC-certified bamboo plywood, selected for its extraordinary grain beauty and its status as the world's fastest-growing structural material.

Lighting design is entirely LED, with a sophisticated scene-control system allowing each studio space to be tuned from energising bright daylight colour temperatures for active yoga classes to deep amber candlelight tones for restorative and meditation sessions. All light fittings are concealed within recessed slots in the lime plaster ceiling — no visible hardware, no surface-mounted fittings, nothing to interrupt the serene material simplicity of the interior.