Mexico City studio Goko has topped this music studio with a large "skyspace" to flood it with natural light.

Goko renovated a house built in the 1920s to create Chapel Studio with space for recording, meetings, hosting parties and accommodating overnight guests.
The studio, founded by Mexican architect Christopher Koehn, wanted the music studio to be open and bright, instead of dark and confined.

"Music studios have a tendency to be closed, cold clustered, visually saturated, artificially lit spaces," Goko said. "No sunlight, no spacial communication, no inspiration."
A large skylight punctures the centre of the double-height ceiling inside Chapel Studio. The surrounding walls are each angled slightly differently to disperse the light throughout the space.
"On the double-height central room we opened a 'skyspace' over the dome to inject natural sunlight into the core of the project," Goko continued.
At the studio's entrance, the studio designed a dimly lit hallway leading to double doors that open to a luminous area known as The Chapel. It said the interval draws on the Japanese ideal Ma, which can be translated as gap or space.

"You enter through a very dark, acoustically isolated tunnel with an atmospheric sound triggered by the body's movement," the studio added.
Vertical wood slats cover the walls in the main recording area and the smaller control and meeting rooms. The strips of wood conceal bulky wall tiles and ac...