The Great Dharma Chan Monastery
The Chung Tai Zen Center will be a 25,000 square-foot Buddhist Meditation Center, which will consist of a main sanctuary building and associated residential monastery developed on a beautiful, rural 35-acre site in East Boulder. The property’s quiet and rural farm character is the ideal calm atmosphere for meditation practice and Buddhist instruction, prioritizing purity of mind and a caring, fulfilling way of life. The facility is expected to be Net Zero Energy, producing more energy than it uses. Other sustainable impacts will be the protection of existing wetlands on the site and enhancement to current ecology. The intention for the center’s design encourages mindfulness and incorporates a harmonic relationship with the environment.
Project Size: 25,000 SF | Completed: 2021
AIA Colorado 2023 Design Award of Excellence
Colorado Green Building Guild 2022 Green Building of the Year
The Great Dharma Chan Monastery is a 25,000-square-foot Buddhist Meditation Center, which consists of a main sanctuary building and associated residential monastery developed on a beautiful, rural 35-acre site in East Boulder. The property’s quiet rural farm character is the ideal calm atmosphere for meditation practice and Buddhist instruction, prioritizing purity of mind and a caring, fulfilling way of life. The Monastery utilized multiple types of mass timber products within its structure - these products are less carbon intensive than other building materials & have a smaller environmental footprint. The use of mass timber in this project alone avoided 457 metric tons of C02, equivalent to keeping 411 cars off the road for a year. The intention for the center’s design encourages mindfulness and incorporates a harmonic relationship with the environment.
Project Size: 25,000 SF | Completed: 2022
Builder: Adolfson & Peterson Construction | Interiors: Sopher Sparn Architects
