Amazing Award Winning Kripalu Annex

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Peter Rose and partners has opened an award-winning housing tower, a place where the meditative and rejuvenating yoga were blend together. Its calledthe Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.

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The Kripalu Annex was awarded the AIA National Housing Award for Specialized Housing and was named Honorable Mention for I.D.’s 2010 Annual Design Review.

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Peter Rose chose to create an interplay of modern and natural materials that blends well with the environment. It contains 80 rooms and a large yoga studio set on a tapering axis that is designed to frame views of dense woodlands.

The concrete structure is clad in slatted cypress that offers a streamlined design and places the landscape first. Movable cypress sunscreens temper heat gain, create dynamic shadows on the sunny southern exposure, and provide scents of natural wood in guest rooms.

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The facility includes a variety of sustainable features that allow the Annex to reduce its ecological footprint and cut its energy use in half. It has features a planted roof and a hydronic radiant heating and cooling system.

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And also a natural ventilation and lighting are provided throughout, and the building plan is crafted to funnel breezes. Because of the simple design decisions this building is 30 percent smaller than a similar conventional building.

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The project represents the beginning of a new master plan for the 300-acre Kripalu campus which proposes a mix of renovated existing buildings, landscape improvements, and new structures intended to provide an environmentally sensitive model of sustainability.

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source : inhabitat, roseandpartners