The new Kitchen Dining Building (KDB) is needed to increase the capacity, efficiency and hygiene of the kitchen, while offering more space and comfort for students and servers. The building is designed to be nearly completely energy neutral. 

The building is located on the line that will divide the terrain into male and female areas, thus providing for better segregation during courses. Its location parallel to the road also makes it a natural barrier that will shield the centre from traffic noise.

In this building several functions will come together. Aside from cooking and eating, the building will also be used for registration on the starting day of courses. It will also provide space for lockers where students' valuables will be stored , offices for the course managers, and a display area for course signs and  information on Metta days. 

The project team worked closely with the centre’s different working groups - kitchen, courses, garden, construction and household - all of which provided input and contributed to the design of the building and its surroundings.

In October 2020, the design for the KDB was submitted to the municipality for approval. While we wait for the outcome, DMOA and the project team are working on selecting suitable materials for the building, while engineers and other experts visit the site for different studies. These include energy efficiency, structural stability, and soil composition.

You find the layout plan below.

1. kitchen area
2. dining halls for male and female students
3. dining areas for male and female servers
4. lobbies
5. offices for the course managers

The new male accommodation building (MA) will, together with the new KDB, bring the centre to full capacity. It will allow us to offer more single rooms and have full segregation for the students.

An important guideline was to build a one-storey building, and to locate it not too far from or close to from the Dhamma Hall.  The building will have 34 single rooms, and 5 triple rooms. There will be one room for a disabled person and one studio for a teacher in training .

At the beginning of March 2021, we submitted the design for the MA for approval to the municipality. The aim is to construct both buildings simultaneously to lower costs and limit the inconvenience to the shortest possible period. We are in the process of selecting materials and looking for suitable contractors to be able to start with the construction of the building in September 2021.