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Original design for a small church, my first one. Church building is a pretty big business where I live. Lots of new people coming in means the churches have been expanding. New "Mega-churches" have sprung up. They are more like auditoriums with rock bands!This a basically a very traditional church format, with emphasis on fairly wide aisles and a clear span of at least 50 feet across, using modern "glu-lam" laminated beams arranged into trusses at 10' intervals. Stained glass might be "earthy" green tones to emphasize connection to nature. Most important feature is good proportions and beauty of front elevation. The stairs to the top of the steeple would be steel for strength in case many churchgoers go up into the steeple after a service. Also, the stairs would taper in a bit, somewhat challenging to build.
Front elevation is a tiny sketch from my sketchbook, so it is a little rough looking. Floor plan executed a little bigger at scale 1/16"=one foot. Both drawings in pencil, semi-transparent vellum over graph paper for the plan.
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Pretty simple plan really...
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For me is complicated believe me!
I don't know how to start, what advice can you give me?
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Plan of classic churches are symmetrical, with rows of pews. Altar at the end. Width of church governed by how much you can span with beams/trusses, etc. Simplest floor plans form a cross. There can be side entries or side chapels in the short arms of the cross. Steeples ad towers can be at crossing point of cross (over the center, at ends of short sides of cross, or at long end, at the main entry, where mine is. Gothic cathedrals have three entry doors (Holy Trinity) and two steeple towers on either side.
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I have found in some books plans of churches and look very nice and easy to practice maybe if I put myself to practice more and look for also castle plans, and houses I will improve
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I prefer the small quiet churches like this to the auditoriums that seem to be so popular today.
The steeple reminds me of the old Greenville railway station that was torn down in 1988.
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HMMMMM don't remember that one. What's that one out near you, on 123 I think? Massive operation in Easley.
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You mean the baby BiLo Center across from the new Wal-Mart. Yeah, It's rediculous.
The old Greenville Southern Railway station used to be right next to the Amtrack depot at the end of West Washington St.
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Greer and Clemson have decent stations.
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I took this photo about a month before it was demolished..
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I am trying to build a model of it.. Both in HO scale and 1/4" scale with selective compression.
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1/4 inch scale is huge, isn't it?
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The main building at 1/4" scale would be rather large, about 30 inches long and 12" wide. I'll do some selective compression on it to bring it down to about 18 to 20 inches long and about 9" wide, but still keep the spirit of the architecture.
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I'm taking my long lost uncle for a tour of Downtown on Wed. Hard to explain all these changes. Are you actively building these RR models all the time, several days a week?
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I work on models in between other projects.. Eventually they'll go on a model railroad.
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I like it very much. I am of the oppinion there are too many 'mega churches' and not enough peaceful quiet country churches in the world. God may be at both, but I know I would feel far more at peace in a place like this.
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Yes, maybe people don't want to feel at peace. Maybe they just want to see a rock band and listen to a guy talk about his addictions for an hour. That's what I saw when I went to megachurch nearby.
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well, if that's what they want, there are plenty of options available. It's not for me though, not by a long shot.
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The rear is more traditional, though you could probably cram one into the choir there.
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Yes. this was supposed to be a reply to slowdog. Dunno why it posted alone.
As a person who's been around a lot of churches... you're also missing any sort of storage solutions or administrative areas for the pastor and secretary.
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Yes granted, additional things will be additionalized he he plus, many differences according to specific Christian faiths...
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What kind of resources would this take to build? I only ask because looking at the floorplan made me think of Sydney Poitier's film "Lilies of the Field"---could this be built by mendicant nuns and a determined handyman?
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Heh, wonderful film, eh? The beams that make up the trusses would have to be custom manufactured, so some substantial cost there and a crane needed for install. But it's a relatively simple structure otherwise, maybe not too expensive. For a hand-built job, I would design it different.
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What a well made tax haven. Will there be magic shows?
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It IS a magic show! Don't you get it? Let's build it in Cyprus.
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How should we lay it out? At the back with a second level loft? At the front?
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If Catholic, in the back. If Protestant, in the front.
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Only you would know that. I was brought up Catholic but that fact escaped me. I think we should seriously put one in there. What happens with Methodists and Episcopalians? Front?
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Catholic houses of worship have the organ and choir lofted in the chancel at the rear of the sanctuary. All other hopuses of God have the organ in the front. Catholic churches heavily decorate the organ cases with an ornate facade hiding the pipe chambers. Protestant churches put the pipes on either side of the dias/pulpit area and they are not always evident with decorative facade pipes. Most times, the pipes are simply installed behind a decorative grillwork or in some cases, curtains. Catholics want the organ to be SEEN as well as HEARD. Protestants are all happy clappy and the organ rarely gets played nowdays. Shame...
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Aha! Thanks! Now I got it. Haven't designed a pipe organ yet.
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Click this [link] to visit my website about pipe organs. It might help in the design process.
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