Question: How have the plans for the inside/floor plan of the new Parish Life Center been developed?

I have spoken often about the process that was used to develop the master plan behind Building Faith: A New Generation.  Specifically, how parish leaders and the planning engineers consulted with the various members of our community, those who use our facilities (i.e. ministry leaders, parish staff, parish maintenance, school parents, city planners, etc) and other experts (i.e. traffic engineers and soil quality scientists)to gain insight into how these facilities could work better for everyone.

Once we determined the site plan and the placement of the drives and the buildings, we turned that same process onto the interior of the building.  The statistics were first: we counted the numbers of ministries, the group sizes, and the needed floor space and room contents from our typical annual parish calendar.  Architects interviewed ministry leaders, employees, and experts in other fields.  We spent time considering how many of "which people" and what times of days and days of the week will they be approaching which of our buildings, occupying which spaces for parking, and what path they might take by car or by foot to gain access to the ministry of the parish. 

Considering all of those demands upon our property and buildings, the architects brought their knowledge and the rapidly developing technologies and design concepts together to produce what is beginning to look like a great and very practical, efficient, and user-friendly parish activity and ministry building and parish office building "all in one".  We will soon have more detailed interior floor plans and three dimensional images and a #D actual model of our proposed Building Faith project.  It is really art and science in service to the mission of the church.