Great Hill Center for Health and Life : A center for Iroquoi in Petersham, Massachusetts
 
 
 
The project involved Site planning and Design based on religious principles for an Iroquois community. The primary role of the center was to provide a base and spiritual core for dispersed individuals in nearby cities. The Longhouse was located in an isolated and protected precinct. A resident community of about 300 persons manged the Sports and Recreation Center, providing athletic training and professional skills. The community worked to revive traditional Iroquois values and way of life by emphasizing the relationship between the different generations as well as the individual and the earth.

The complex has three parts : the Sports Facilities, the Housing and the Longhouse Landscape. These are consecutively more private and protected areas. The Housing and the Longhouse landscape are visually and conceptually linked. External access roads lead to clusters of houses based on the longhouse philosophy of private quarters linked by common gathering areas. These common areas are fields and plantations of cultural significance and aesthetic value. They form a central pedestrian corridor and lead down to the Care Center which has medical and nursing facilities for the elderly as well as a maternity and birthing center. Across the valley and the reflection pool lies the spiritual center.