Summary

Size:

11000

Type:

Religious

Budget:

$2,300,000.00

Date Completed:

08/01/2007

Description

This project received the 2007 Award for Excellence from the Associated Builders and Contractors of West Michigan for Religious Facilities Construction.

This rapidly growing rural parish community had outgrown their beloved historic 100 year old church.  The new 10,341 square foot building will seat 500 people in its first phase, and is master planned for an additional 500 seats in future additions.

This unique design has a rural appeal, alluding to agricultural buildings, and integrates a contemporary structure onto a traditional cruciform plan. This plan allows the structure to be easily expanded to accommodate future growth.

The dramatic concrete buttresses are a significant architectural and structural feature of this new church.  There are two different types of buttresses that rise to 13 feet above the finished floor.  The buttress frames are made with seven distinct planes at various angles. Each is penetrated by two intersecting archways. 

These buttresses were required to layout exactly to properly seat an equally impressive lattice of timber trusses. Structural Insulated Panels make up the remainder of the roof structure. The dramatic open space which is created contributes to the feeling of a place of worship.