Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2020

K2LD – CHRI­ST METHO­DI­ST CHURCH

Desi­gner Shiou Hee Ko
Loca­tion 597 East Coa­st Road, Sin­ga­po­re 429082
Desi­gn Team

Ko Shiou Hee
Char­lot­te Wong
Lee Jun Xian
Anno 2014
Pho­to credits

Patrick Bin­gham Hall

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

Inspi­red by the chal­len­ges of brin­ging tra­di­tio­nal ideas around wor­ship into a con­tem­po­ra­ry archi­tec­tu­ral con­text, K2LD archi­tec­ts loo­ked to re-ima­­gi­­ne the tra­di­tio­nal church; how new and dif­fe­rent spa­tial con­fi­gu­ra­tions could be used to pre­ach the same gospel. The main aspi­ra­tions of the church were distil­led into three key poin­ts; the need for an ima­ge, envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bi­li­ty, and mul­ti­func­tio­nal spaces.

Crea­ting an Image
In respon­se to a church’s need to com­mu­ni­ca­te its mis­sion to the outsi­de com­mu­ni­ty with a strong ima­ge, a slat­ted screen inno­va­ti­ve­ly unveils the cross, embo­dy­ing con­tem­po­ra­ry notions of wor­ship and fel­lo­w­ship. At night, illu­mi­na­ted small cros­ses seem to almo­st dan­ce across its faca­de, fur­ther infor­ming the enti­re skin as an icon for the church and community. 

Envi­ron­ment
The screen faça­de also sha­des the inte­rior spa­ces from the tro­pi­cal cli­ma­te and pro­vi­des nee­ded ven­ti­la­tion. This allo­ws for the main atrium spa­ce to remain open air, whi­le being shel­te­red from the ele­men­ts. With fluid wave­li­ke pat­terns inspi­red by the near­by sea, the slat­ted faca­de con­di­tion sof­tly enve­lops the buil­ding, vei­ling its func­tions behind a uni­fied front whi­le sup­por­ting its envi­ron­men­tal agen­da. Ver­ti­cal gree­ne­ry is stra­te­gi­cal­ly pla­ced on the east/west faca­des for opti­mal gro­wth in Singapore’s climate. 

Mul­ti­func­tio­nal Program
The desi­gn looks to the stac­king of pro­grams and over­lap­ping rela­tion­ships for­med. At the entran­ce, the buil­ding is lif­ted off the ground, allo­wing spa­ces below to flow throu­gh the 1st floor, acting as a car park during over­flow hours and open air event spa­ce. Often con­ver­ted into a lar­ge open-air dining spa­ce, it ser­ves as an addi­tio­nal gathe­ring spa­ce for the con­gre­ga­tion outsi­de the main wor­ship halls.
Cir­cu­la­tion is wea­ved throu­gh the spa­ces of the buil­ding; A lar­ge stair­ca­se in the cen­tre of the 1st floor brings cir­cu­la­tion and air up throu­gh an atrium for­med by asym­me­tri­cal voids car­ved bet­ween floor pla­tes, allo­wing for ver­ti­cal visual con­nec­ti­vi­ty across various pro­gram­ming areas.
The main wor­ship spa­ces form the heart of the buil­ding on the 2nd and 3rd floors with the atrium fee­ding into it. Arran­ged in an audi­to­rium sty­le, the wor­ship hall aims to orient the audien­ce to the mini­ster. Abo­ve on the 4th and 5th floors, lie the edu­ca­tion spa­ces, roof ter­ra­ces and out­door play spaces.

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