Lakeside Lounge

A meditation studio built as a VRChat world, standing on piles above a glacial lake in a Banff-like valley at sunset. The 20 × 32 m room rises 12 m under a ribbed oak ceiling, with floor-to-ceiling glass on all four walls and a bowed curtain wall of 68 vertical white-oak fins, an interior loosely based on the Integral House in Toronto.

The design draws on neuroaesthetics and biophilic design: glass and warm oak beams bring the landscape into the room, and the natural materials, long views and soft daylight were chosen for their calming effect. Mindfulness groups in VR use the world for group meditation, and it includes tools that let a facilitator guide a session while participants settle into the practice area together.

The building was generated procedurally from a single Python constants file: the curtain wall's bow, the fins' taper and spacing, and the ceiling ribs all follow a sine displacement along the wall's arc rather than being modelled by hand. The surrounding mountains, forest, and lake were rendered separately as one 8K panorama in Cycles and projected onto a skydome instead of kept as real geometry, since the alpine backdrop alone runs past a billion triangles at building scale. Light and texture carry the room: a low sunset sun rakes through the glass, warm bronze accent lamps sit at floor level, and honed limestone, white-oak veneer, and blackened steel are set against the mauve wool felt practice area.