MasterPeace – A Meditation & Yoga Retreat Center Design Challenge

MasterPeace – A Meditation & Yoga Retreat Center Design Challenge

The challenge is to design a meditation & yoga center catering its services to max. 500-1000 people. The center should have open & enclosed areas for meditation & yoga. The aim of the competition is to promote such retreat centers which have now become the need of the hour in today’s world.

Yoga & Meditation in India were first practiced only by religious monks. Today millions of people worldwide roll out their mats daily to practice and is now a worldwide phenomenon. Dedicated centers & studios for practicing yoga & meditation have added to the popularity of both the art. Both Meditation & Yoga has a huge significance for a 21st century person as we are constantly under the competitive and workaholic environments , our sedentary lifestyles , junk food eating habits & our constant engagement with digital screens ( mobiles , laptops etc.) can have an overwhelming effect on us both mentally & physically.
Program

The retreat center should have following areas:

1) Admin Area (Waiting & Reception, Two Offices , staff area for 5-10people , a pantry & common toilet)
2) A Dedicated Yoga Facility (for 500 people)
3) A Dedicated Meditation Facility (for 500 people)
4) A Library & Two workshops (Painting and Pottery)
5) A Kitchen & Dining Hall (For 250 people at a time)
6) Staff Parking is only to be considered. Visitor’s elsewhere.
7) It is to be assumed that the center will have a temple hence you are not supposed to design. If you wish you can design the temple.
8) Change Rooms, Lockers, Amphitheater, Gardens, Community Farms,Water Body & other landscape areas are also to be taken in to account while designing the proposal.

For meditation & yoga hall both you can design multiple units of different capacity as per your concept but it should not exceed the max capacity of 500 people for each. For example you can design two units of yoga hall each having capacity of max. 250 people.