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Sequential Transcendence: An Architectural Response to the Contemporary Multi-Site Church Typology

Saunders, Christopher S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427897563

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2015, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
In recent years contemporary churches have turned to a multi-site business model, centered around uniformly timed theatrical experiences of worship, focused on attracting visitors that are unchurched, and neglecting any sort of congregation or membership. The multi-site church has transformed into an environment of weak architecture, negating all the value and force that the architectural predecessors of the church building type established, and instead putting all their reliance into consumer based electronics for lighting and fog to foster spiritual transcendence. In consideration of this entertainment driven attitude used to bring spiritual transcendence, this thesis is an exploration into a greater and more vivid role for architectural techniques, specifically derived from sequence, threshold, and temporal studies. Spatial sequences with specific psychological intent will be linked through thresholds where the architecture becomes foregrounded to the user through operations of light, volume, and threshold, and becomes an event, between social exchange and solitude, that guides the worshippers towards spiritual transcendence. The architecture thus becomes the driver used to supplement and evoke appropriate emotions to allow for spiritual transcendence, while also promoting the isochronal structure of this church typology.
John Eliot Hancock, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
82 p.
Architecture
church; sequence; threshold; light; volume; event

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  • Saunders, C. S. (2015). Sequential Transcendence: An Architectural Response to the Contemporary Multi-Site Church Typology [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427897563

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Saunders, Christopher. Sequential Transcendence: An Architectural Response to the Contemporary Multi-Site Church Typology. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427897563.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Saunders, Christopher. "Sequential Transcendence: An Architectural Response to the Contemporary Multi-Site Church Typology." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427897563

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