ST. MARY MAGDALEN
ARCHITECTURAL VISION STATEMENT
After much study, prayer, and consultation with the Advisors, Construction Task Group II presents the following Guiding Concepts for our proposed project.
As children of God and disciples of Christ Jesus, we believe that God nurtures us through individual and communal prayer, especially the Eucharist, in which Christ's faithful love makes us one. We need to create sacred spaces where this vision of peace, joy, inspiration, and renewal can be realized.
The power of Christ's sacrificial love transforms us into His real presence in the world by the Eucharist. This celebration and all sacraments require support spaces.
We embrace our children as our younger brothers and sisters in Christ. We envision a strong religious education program and youth community that will excite our youth into learning and sharing with us fully.
Our community supports the importance and integrity of families. For those who have no one we are family. We reach out to invite and welcome strangers and offer support and encouragement. As a result, we are a community with many needs beyond worship.
Because gathering begins at the street, our exterior is important to us.
We commit ourselves to this vision, FOR OURSELVES AND FUTURE GENERATIONS, dedicating to it our energies, individual talents and expertise, time and our financial support.
The CTG II, with the assistance of the advisors, has determined that to fulfill these Guiding Concepts for our community we must make the following requests of architecture.
- • Means a need or a + means a wish
As children of God and disciples of Christ Jesus, we believe that God nurtures us through individual and communal prayer, especially the Eucharist, in which Christ's faithful love makes us one. We need to create sacred spaces where this vision of peace, joy, inspiration, and renewal can be realized.
- • Humble space that reflects this humble community / keep balanced
- • Increase the capacity to 1200
New seating should not be dark/ are skylights possible here?
- • Seating for everyone to see and hear
Not 360 degrees seating / no obstructed views
Raise the altar bema
More room around the bema
Retain intimacy and don’t over build
- • Maintain the intimacy here
- • A better sound system
- • Natural materials
A cost concern (several tables)
Keep this flooring
Maintain the natural light
- • Maintain openness
- • Keep esthetically appealing
Not lose focus on the altar/ limit distractions
A must to improve esthetics
Soften the appearance / warmer tones / more color
No need for ornateness
- • Look more like a church
+ Stained glass
Limited use and not distracting from natural light
Can add later
Use in the Day Chapel or gathering place
Not too much and make it tasteful to fit the building/ not dark Gothic
- • Barrier free
- o Designated areas of choice for wheelchair seating
- o Remove chairs to make inviting
- o Less barriers for all people with special needs
- o Better access from the parking
- o Power assisted doors at both the front and back entrance
- o A special needs entrance
- o Proper material for easier mobility
- o Be cautious with slopes because of walkers
- • Devotional areas
- o Votive candles
- o In Day Chapel also
- • Music area enlarged
Tiered and slightly curved
Ceiling microphones
Less messy area/ Possible for cord storage in the floor ???
Careful music doesn’t overwhelm people and stop them from singing
Don’t block the view of others
- • Identify our treasures that we will use
Stations /Cross /font / tabernacle itself in new pillar / tabernacle light Magdalen refined / antique altar candles somewhere or seasonally/
Blessed Sacrament door / bookcases / chairs/ fire vessel and eternal flame/
Reconciliation chapel furniture / holy smoke ‘ball and chain’ /
Skylight / seasonal environments
Adaptive respectful reuse of treasures we choose not to use as they are
Mary collage
Altar and ambo
Keep Dedication crosses but rework the candles
- • Warmth
Warm wood (cost concern from many tables)
- • Break up the large expanse of color in the worship space
Use high quality washable paint
- • Blessed Sacrament Chapel
- o More visibility of the tabernacle from worship
- o Larger than the present one but maintain intimacy
- o Open 24/7
- o Peaceful
- o Some semblance of privacy
- o No traffic through here to the church
- o Handicapped available
- o Heated
- o Well lit
- o With an air lock
- o More windows for natural light
- o Not attached to sacristy
- + Wish for expanded bookshelf for prayer books
+ Wish for a bathroom nearby
- • Quiet and well balanced mechanical system
- • Coves be accessible to art and environment and structure to support them
- • Deal with the congestion coming out of mass
- • Projection screen for
Baptisms
+In the gathering place, too
- • Smaller quiet fountain with moving water / quiet the font
- • More space around the font
- • Day Chapel
Quiet; acoustically separated
Natural light
Larger (120)
More privacy
Designated place of honor for coffin with special lighting
The power of Christ's sacrificial love transforms us into His real presence in the world by the Eucharist. This celebration and all sacraments require support spaces.
- • Enlarge the gathering place
- o Keep good hymnal storage and expand capacity
- o More seating here but not too much/
- improved especially for fussy baby use
- o Windows
- o Dedicated space for sign-up sheets
- o Better table placement
- o More outlets
- o Is Magdalen in the right place?
- o Well marked areas so can find things looking for easily
- • Larger hospitality ministry room (50% larger)
- • More bathrooms for large gathering
- o Put some by RE; strategically locate
- o Heat in the bathrooms
- o Solve water pressure issues for large gathering
- • Family assisted bathroom and handicap accessible
- • Bereavement room in some multipurpose space
A space for nursing mothers here
Appropriate furniture for these uses
- • Art and environment storage
- • Music storage
Place for stands, microphones, etc
Add shelving system
Vertical music storage for musicians and choir
We embrace our children as our younger brothers and sisters in Christ. We envision a strong religious education program and youth community that will excite our youth into learning and sharing with us fully.
- • More classrooms / meeting rooms
- o Better shaped tables for RE / get rid of the round tables here
- o Adjustable height tables
- o White boards
- o More cork strips
- o Counter and cupboards
- o Better AV equipment
- o Permanent rooms
- o Share sink for 1st and 2nd grades
- o Low maintenance floor; older kids tile, younger carpet in 4 classrooms
- o Consider preschool
- o Designated display area
- o Water source close to classrooms
- o Bathrooms close to here
- • RE storage and workspace
Large with shelves and accessible to copy machine
Permanent storage
Reorganize the space we have
- • Large open activity space (to be shared with adults)
- o Storage for collapsible basketball hoops
- o A stage that is moveable, even for outdoors
- o Almost every table said to connect this to the social hall
- With doors and not folding walls…many tables…
- o Sports programs; add equipment later
- o No carpeting
- • Large youth room open every day (would not be adult shared space)
- o Oriented to activity space
- o Supervised
- o A sound system they could move around
- o A safe place to go on weekends
- o Movie night
- o Soft seating
- o Frig, sink, counters, microwave, etc.
- o Large TV with DVD and VCR
- o Pool table
- o Pink pong table
- o Capacity to lock off from the church
Our community supports the importance and integrity of families. For those who have no one we are family. We reach out to invite and welcome strangers and offer support and encouragement. As a result, we are a community with many needs beyond worship.
- • Social hall able to open into activity room
- • Larger and more workable kitchen and serving area
- o Dish clean up and receiving spaces enlarged
- o Larger dish capacity dish washer
- o A speaker monitor in the kitchen with off/on switch
- o Larger oven, refrigerator and freezer, and better stove
- o Warming oven
- o Ice maker
- o Larger receiving area for supplies
- o Must be on an outside wall (every table)
- o Bigger serving windows
- • More multipurpose meeting rooms for adults only, some with good privacy
- • Adult formation space to meet
- o RCIA needs
- o Ministry school needs
- o Carpet
- o Nice lighting
- o Sink/counter and more cupboards
- o Sound control and away from the kid areas
- o Multipurpose room with flexibility and movable walls
- • Library accessible especially after liturgies
Separate from RCIA so more available
A place to read
Multipurpose
- • Nursery
- o One and half times larger
- o Half door with escape proof hardware the lock from inside
- o Monitor with a switch here
- o Hard floor under table for snacks
- o Special cubbies
- o Safer
- o Coat hooks
- o Changing station
- o Built in toddler play area
- o Comfy sitting (bean bags)
- • More and increased office space
- o More office storage and general work space
- o Coat closet
- o Storage conflicts with work and break area
- o Files, files, files
- o Conference room with schedule for use
- • A central supply base and order in quantity with sign out sheet
- • Like areas clustered so can share storage and other things
- • Can we put shelves in the center of the basement for more storage?
- • Intercom for emergencies, but not intrusive
- • Design for wireless communication in limited locations
Lockout rooms from wireless
- • Incorporate Hi Tech capacity; prep now for later use
- • Windows in all interior doors;
- • Be able to sleep and feed people here
- o Meet charity and justice needs here
- o Showers
- • Larger room activity assignment board
- • A defined room for the Knights of Columbus for 40-50 people
- o They would share this room when they are not using it
- o Continue rectory basement use
- o Need storage on site
- • More natural light all over
- • Computer/technical support room with locked storage
- • Minimize the number of folding walls or partitions
- o Make these user friendly
- o Limit to one wall of a room wherever possible
- o We do need flexibility
BECAUSE GATHERING BEGINS AT THE STREET, OUR EXTERIOR IS IMPORTANT TO US.
+ Bell tower
- o A church bell or electronic carillon
- o Ask neighbors before installing a bell
- • Main entrance to the church invites you in; new significant doors
- • Portico designed so entrance is not dark
- • Benches, especially near the drop off
In reflection area and around the outside
- • Use the natural view of the lake to advantage
- • Outdoor spaces for prayer and reflection; walkways through a garden
- • Labyrinth outside
- • Parking
- o Not a parking gauntlet for the last few minutes as people cross driveways
- This is a safety issue
- o Wider driveway with a line in the center, especially at the curves
- o Curbs
- o Widen the entrance to allow left and right turns at the same time
- o Straighten the entry road
- o Have closer to the church entrance
- o Separate exit and entrance
- o Stop light with a left turn arrow
- • Improve and increase the handicapped parking areas
- o Especially accessibility to the worship space
- o No outside steps
- o Their parking closer to the door
- • Exterior doors to meet resistance specifications
- • More appealing landscaping
- o Especially around the church
- o Self maintaining landscapes
- o Plan for but add later
+ Deceased children’s memorial; separate project but designate space for it now
- • Security system enhancements
- • Attend to the exterior Mary garden
We commit ourselves to this vision, FOR OURSELVES AND FUTURE GENERATIONS, dedicating to it our energies, individual talents and expertise, time and our financial support.
- • Zoned heating and cooling
- • Avoid exterior/interior materials that requires painting
- • Minimize maintenance wherever possible
- • Good use of insulation
- • Better fix for movable walls
- • New and more “drawing in” entrance; more welcoming
- • Landscape between duplex and entrance; says this is a church
May 22, 2006