10/17/2025
In our next chapter of "Architecture of Meaning" we visit our Jubilee Outreach Church project. As a non-sectarian, evangelical church, the membership of Jubilee Outreach is composed of a gathering of different faiths and outlooks. The teaching of the Church is based on this variety. Therefore, the Church building is a composition of four differently shaped, pre-engineered metal buildings. Each metal building is shaped to be the most efficient for the rooms contained within it. These shapes are then composed into an interesting overall building mass.
Each of the metal buildings has a different color which refers to traditional symbols of sacred architecture. The education wing is blue, referring to sacred water. The sanctuary is beige, referring to sacred stone or the sacred mountain. The sanctuary lobby is green for the sacred forest. The main entrance lobby is white and is the building of light. Even the interiors continue this symbolism with the sanctuary, or sacred stone building has "blocks" of acoustic material stacked randomly to appear like the wailing wall in Jerusalem.
Meaningful symbolic design with efficent, common materials.
