Sacred Geometry – Janus Welton Design Works

Holistic Health Community – The Sanctuary, Stone Ridge, NY

Guided by the principles of Sacred Architecture and Geometry, I have encoded a variety of mathematical and sacred measures, also used in many Ancient Temples of Transformation. The Geometry and Measure throughout the Santuary is based on the PHI proportions and Golden Ratio that emanates from our cosmos. Using golden mean calipers, I measured relationships among the building parts in both elevation and plan, assuring divine proportions.

The petal shapes are derived from overlapping Golden Spirals and are placed in a Nine-Star configuration. The Sanctuary plan embraces ceiling beams supporting the second floor in a nine-star pattern. The energy of nine relates to completion, faith, cosmic consciousness, alignment, awakening to the higher self, answering to divine purpose, and spiritual blessings.

The Flower and Seeds of Life are imbedded in the floor patterns of the Sanctuary, made from feminine and masculine stones, and are represented with art and lighting in the circular hallway surrounding the Sanctuary. The Flower of Life is a series of overlapping circles that build infinitely outward forming a flower like grid that symbolizes Creation, Unity, and Infinite Possibilities.

A large dodecahedron crystal sculpture is suspended from the dome inside the inner sanctuary casting light patterns throughout the building from the sky dome above. A spiral stairway leads to a second story lobby and treatment rooms that access green roof gardens.
The Sanctuary is oriented in the fixed cardinal directions, as in temples worldwide. A Northeast entrance orientation mimics ancient healing temples around the world. The site placement is based on dowsing and places the building in the center of a crossing of a powerful vortex energy and underground water stream, ensuring a powerful energetic matrix for the sanctuary.

Holistic Health Community – Operations Center, Stone Ridge, NY

As part of a larger permaculture farm, the Sanctuary sits atop a hill and represents the crown chakra. Whereas the Operations Center sits at the foot of the site and is the “welcome” center and base of farming and Holistic Health Community operations. The HHC board chose the final configuration form a selection of three different building concepts.

The Operations Center is also based on sacred geometric patterns that surround us in Nature. These archetypal geometric patterns amplify our connection to spirit, create harmony within ourselves, and among ourselves and the outside world. Every geometric form has its unique vibrational resonance, as seen in the three initial concepts.

The final concept is based on the PHI proportions and Fibonacci numbers. PHI is the Golden Mean Proportion of 1.618. In this unique relationship, the length of the whole line is to the large part in the same ratio that the large part is to the small part, creating Harmonic Proportions.
The overall rectangle measures thirty-four feet by fifty- five feet and the rotunda and dome has a radius of twenty-one feet, all Fibonacci numbers.

The overall shape of the building is a cross, reminiscent of Atlantean and Temple Cross plans found in all cultures, from Hindu to Christian to Native American cosmology. The Cross of Atlantis expressed as a sun disc symbol is embedded in concentric rings on the interior floor pattern and the concentric circular pattern of the landscape surrounding the community center, denoting a living structure where man meets the gods. The concentric rings additionally symbolize a vortex, a two-dimensional expression of a three-dimensional experience of travel through stargate passageways or wormholes.

Holistic Health Community Center, Stone Ridge, NY

Sacred Architecture incorporates archetypal geometries found in nature, containing high frequencies of energy and light that can activate, awaken, heal, rebalance, and transform us on our healing journey. The HHC Community Center architecture features the mathematics of the Spiral Golden section- or God Ratio otherwise known as PHI – the divine proportions of 1.1618. Why? The Fibonacci numbers and Golden mean ratio connects us to heaven and earth. The spiral connects our physical self to our Higher Self and links all levels of our being into the core of the Earth. We can see the golden spiral in the galaxies and in the double helix in our DNA.

The Holistic Health Community Center floor plan is composed of six Golden Ratio rectangles and the building heights are designed with Spiral Golden Ratio mathematics locking in the Sacred PHI Divine Proportions of 1.618. The central community space is circular in shape to bring the community to wholeness and unity. The circle also represents the never-ending cycles of life and change that bring us back energetically to the center- to oneness and perfection. The Cross symbol is overlayed on the Circle of Life in the plan, denoting the union of humankind where “heaven’ and “earth” meet.

The atrium cap allows pillars of light from the sun and moon to percolate through the community space into the basement Kiva space through a circular glass floor feature- further connecting the above and below of Heaven and Earth. Constructed of twelve radiating circular timber beams, The dome structure activates the twelve-fold planetary grid representing the “quickening” of the earth-serving to increase the vibratory levels of the occupants. This hourglass of light suggests a gateway to another dimension.

The entire Holistic Health Community Center is designed as a Healing Temple using natural, local materials such as straw, cedar, bluestone, and copper colored metal roofs to seamlessly integrate into the local building vernacular and natural rural landscape of the Hudson Valley.