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Battle Creek , Michigan

St. Peter Lutheran Church

3,700 sf

$400,000

Description
Following a facilities study the previous year, Architects Incorporated designed site improvements and a building addition for this Lutheran Church. Site improvements included doubling of the existing number of parking spaces, designated handicap accessible parking spaces and two new building approaches.

The building addition replaces the former narrow corridor between the sanctuary and the fellowship hall. The new generous size narthex addition links educational wing with sanctuary and provides a new office addition that monitors entry from east or west sides of the building. Energy efficient vestibules provide an inviting entry from both sides of the building into a narthex, which is lit by clerestory windows. The addition also contains men's and women's barrier-free toilet rooms and a warming kitchen opening into the fellowship hall.

The awkward declining ridge pitched roofs of the existing buildings were very difficult to integrate so the addition was designed to separate and allow existing forms to blend with addition and change focus of church to new entry and narthex space.