Center for Wellness | College of New Rochelle | New Rochelle, NY | 2008

1,500 seat gym and convocation center | 100 seat 6 lane competition pool | fitness and aerobics center | holistic meditation room
offices and classrooms | 55,000 square feet

The Center for Wellness at the College of New Rochelle, in New Rochelle, New York, is a paradisaical garden for the exultation of the body, mind, and spirit. Like narrative and pictorial depictions of the Garden of Eden, the Center is a sheltered meditative precinct removed from the urban distractions of metropolitan New York that surround it. Deftly combining local granite, concrete, colored glass panels, and land, the Center mergers the relationship between building and landscape and achieves a LEED Silver rating through a thoughtful approach to materials and systems. Metaphorically, each of the major program components represent a landform; the natatorium is the grotto; the gymnasium is a rock outcropping; and the multi-story lobby concourse is a stone crevasse deeply cut into the gently sloping site.

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