Church of the Servant
3835 Burton Kentwood MI 49546 Map
Summary
- Size: 17,000 Sq. Ft.
- Type: Religious
Description
Challenge: To honor the existing building's spirit, geometry, and form, while enhancing he development of community by providing a variety of spaces for fellowship and interaction.
- Addition to existing building designed by Gunnar Birkerts, FAIA
- New lobby and flexible fellowship rooms for much-needed hospitality and community space. Corridor space is utilized to display the work of a very active community of artists
- Pair of radiused glass walls serve as semi-transparent veils, which act as a threshold between the outer world and the addition
- The preserved exterior of the existing building and the new ministry spaces form blocks of "village" buildings around the original "town center"
- Addition's geometry is based upon gathering around the communion circle, the culmination of worship at the Church of the Servant
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