Earlier this year, our team was invited to participate in a three-firm design competition to explore the future of a prominent mid-century church site in Calgary. With its unique location between a mature residential neighbourhood and a major urban corridor, the site offered an exciting opportunity to imagine its next chapter.
Our feasibility study developed two directions, each adding a multi-story residential building to the site. Both approaches engaged in preserving the mature tree canopy, improving site circulation, and integrating sustainable design strategies.
Study 1: Adaptive Reuse
A design that preserves and revitalizes the existing 1950s church with accessibility upgrades, improved circulation, enhanced natural light, and a new cladding strategy to the church.
Study 2: Comprehensive Redevelopment
A complete redesign featuring a new church and hall, sustainable and dynamic cladding of masonry lattice to diffuse light and privacy, street-oriented commercial space, and an inviting landscape that ties the development together.
More diagrams and renderings are on the way. And later, we will share how this study informed our submission to the UnBuilt Awards.
Click below to read more on this study.