About the Project

International Architecture Competition

Forest Healing Center

Awarded: Honorable Mention
Project name: Three Fold Hermitage
Organizer: Arch 8
Location: Ranikhet, India
Design year: 2022
Footprint area: 17.4 sqm
Floor: 2

With urbanization comes a distinct combination of drawbacks including diseases and deviancies. Given the wide range of health and wellness outcomes linked to environment exposure, the loss in nature experiences could be a direct cause to these difficulties. Hence, people need a place where they can interact with nature and their inner self.

Three-Fold Hermitage is a quiet place hanged out in the space, where small group of people can interact with nature and their inner self, find exposure to environment, and do therapeutic activities like meditation and yoga. It is levitating in space which leaves meditators only between his thoughts. Three-Fold Hermitage symbolizes theory of John Cottingham “Trialism”: Physical (body), Meta-physical (mind) and None-physical (spirit).

Each group of pyramids (3 to 5) are connected by suspended wooden bridges to a tree that is surrounded by spiral stairs, while each unit is tightened by six steel cables to surrounding trees.