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White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church
White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church
Mahtomedi, MN, United States
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White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church
Mahtomedi, MN, United States
In the early 1990’s, White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church purchased a 1950s era Methodist church in Mahtomedi, MN. After making due with Cramped Wednesday night dinners in a the “Social Hall,” Sunday corridor “people-jams,” and worship seating awkwardly rotated 90° in the elongated nave (allowing the congregation to approximate their preferred worship in- the-round), members pleaded to expand.
The Master Plan called for doubling the size of the original facility. We altered connections in the Plan, in order to meet their goals for gathering and worship. We used the Meeting Hall (Sanctuary) and Gallery to connect individuals in the community to each other and the natural setting of the church. Large openings link the building to the surrounding natural woods and wetland, while the existing building, building geometry, and the administrative wing control views and solar exposure to the west. Inside the Meeting Hall and Gallery, space and seating is broken down and arranged to capitalize on different views, such that worshippers and building users can link themselves to a landscape within an intimate group, while remaining part of the whole.
Locus won an AIA Minnesota Honor Award in 2010 for this project.
This project was featured in the Architecture MN Magazine March/April issue of 2011.
The Master Plan called for doubling the size of the original facility. We altered connections in the Plan, in order to meet their goals for gathering and worship. We used the Meeting Hall (Sanctuary) and Gallery to connect individuals in the community to each other and the natural setting of the church. Large openings link the building to the surrounding natural woods and wetland, while the existing building, building geometry, and the administrative wing control views and solar exposure to the west. Inside the Meeting Hall and Gallery, space and seating is broken down and arranged to capitalize on different views, such that worshippers and building users can link themselves to a landscape within an intimate group, while remaining part of the whole.
Locus won an AIA Minnesota Honor Award in 2010 for this project.
This project was featured in the Architecture MN Magazine March/April issue of 2011.
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