On the shortlist for the 2016 World Architecture Festival awards in the Religion category is LAUD Architects’ Grace Assembly of God Church – a four-storey building comprising a 1,500 seat Main Sanctuary, 380 seat Mandarin Hall, 190-seat Children’s’ Hall, a 210-seat Youth Hall, centred around a Central Atrium and topped with prayer rooms and the administrative office. ‘The design of the building is an attempt to reinterpret the contemporary protestant church typology in Singapore that is characterised by windowless enclosed worship spaces where the experience of worship is often artificially orchestrated through elaborate audio and visual effects. Increasingly, multi-purpose auditoriums and even cinemas have been used as alternative worship spaces. The design explores the creation of purpose-built reverent spaces through architecture design. Through manipulation of light, spatial volumes and framed views, the design attempted to create sublime spatial qualities that would bring a church goer into a spirit of reverence and worship.’ (LAUD Architects) CHRIS LOW visits the building for a first impression.
In a world where there is more than fifty shades of grey, where it’s realistic to accept the virtual as real, typologies of space and definition of use have also morphed into a new creature of architecture. One of the most evident emergent especially in a high density city like Singapore is the place of worship.
typo(logical) reorder
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