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St. Luke’s Episcopal Church: Bringing the One in the Spirit Campaign to Life

Renovation and expansion program at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham AL; architecture – interior design by KPS Group Inc

Renovation and expansion program at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham AL; architecture – interior design by KPS Group Inc

Two years of research, study, consultation, planning, and prayer are soon to be realized in a major renovation and addition project on the campus of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham. The culmination of the congregation’s One in the Spirit campaign will renovate, repair, and revitalize the Church facilities with necessary upgrades and additions to ensure that it meets the needs of all its members and address the challenge of the 21st century to support the needs of its evolving community and accommodate future growth.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church – Birmingham AL: Groundbreaking, Site Plan, & Entry/Gathering Space

We specialize in helping mature parishes solve the challenges of outdated facilities and growing congregations.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church – Birmingham AL: Youth Commons Area

KPS has helped many mature churches solve the challenges of growing congregations and inadequate or outdated facilities. We have been honored and blessed to work with St. Luke’s for many years on a variety of projects, including their last major building program in 1994. This effort began with a Masterplan and Program to identify needed upgrades and to help the Church determine the most effective and cost efficient ways they could use their existing facilities and augment them with new ones to achieve the goals of their ministry and outreach. With this information in hand, the design team developed sketches and renderings to help the congregants visualize the design and support the One in the Spirit fundraising campaign.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church – Birmingham AL: Outdoor Pavillion & New Entry at Night

A variety of exterior and interior renovations will replace dated infrastructure and re-work the floor plan to be more effective. In addition to renovating the existing educational facilities, the major architectural program elements include an expansion of the Parish House will provide new space for the Youth Ministry and Day School as well as a welcoming new entry and gathering space. A covered walkway from the Parish House leads to a separate 50’x80’ outdoor open-air pavilion for fellowship, concerts, recreation, and child play.

Contact

Gray Plosser, FAIA | gplosser@kpsgroup.com

Interior Pre-Design Services

Donna Dowling, NCIDQ | Director of Interiors

Interior Design Services by KPS Group

Helping You Make the Most of Your Opportunities

Whether you’re moving, trying to decide whether you should move or stay in your current space, or consolidating personnel from multiple offices into a single location, our expertise in relocations can help you evaluate and compare alternative locations – and even explore the possibilities you may not have thought about in your current space. We develop “test fits” that let you assess the pros and cons of your options, and determine which space is best aligned with your objectives.

Donna Dowling, IIDA, NCIDQ, LEED® AP Principal | Director of Interiors

Under the guidance of Director of Interiors, Donna Dowling NCIDQ, we’ve completed programming, space planning, and interior design for more than 10 million square feet of office space.

Floor PlanTest Fits

The decision to remain in your current location, to move, or to consolidate personnel from multiple offices into a single location impacts your entire business. Our expertise in relocations can help you evaluate and compare alternative locations – and even explore the possibilities you may not have thought about in your current space. We develop “test fits” that let you assess the pros and cons of your options, and determine which space is best aligned with your objectives.

Visioning & Programming: the Pre-Design Process

The first thing we do is engage with your stakeholders to create options and opportunities for discussion, refine and revise them to build consensus, and then provide the basis for an interior environment that is uniquely tailored to your mission and desired image while optimizing the way you work and the resources you have to work with.

Visioning: Understanding Your Goals

Charrette workshopVisioning is an immersion into your organization, operations, and culture. It will help you understand where you are, forecast where you want to be, and understand how to express and support your mission and vision through design image.

This takes place during a workshop that we call a “charrette.” Our designers will lead a group of stakeholders, defined by you, in a series of exercises that explore and articulate your culture, your image, and your vision – and how those qualities are expressed in physical space. It will help you understand the correlation between physical space, perception, and behavior. We balance this against an exploration of pragmatic concerns like workflow analysis and functional adjacencies, staffing, business goals and objectives, and budget. By understanding how these elements work together, we can help you define the desirable – and undesirable – qualities of your ideal physical space.

Programming: Defining a Unified Project Vision

Interior Pre-Design Services

The Programming process brings everyone to consensus around a shared Project Vision in which all feel ownership. This collaborative process results in a “roadmap” that will guide you to the optimal space.

Building on the Visioning charrette, we “walk in your shoes” – visiting your current offices and getting to know you as an organization. Together with you, our designers further analyze your current workflow to understand what works and what doesn’t. Then, by analyzing your people and functions, we together develop and define workplace standards and space allocations, blending your preferences and industry best practices. We extract pragmatic concerns like growth projections for personnel and space, functional adjacencies, and organizational goals and objectives; all balanced against the budget. These are woven together in a final document that is an objective tool that will be used as the foundation for test fitting and subsequent design.

Visioning vs Programming

VISIONING provides a qualitative context that overlays the PROGRAM – the quantitative data that defines your organization’s physical and operational needs.

While a PROGRAM results in a clear understanding of the spatial requirements that will allow you to function optimally now and into the future, VISIONING helps you define the qualitative aspects of the space you seek and understand their impact on your image and culture.

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Contact

Donna Dowling, IIDA | mailto:ddowling@kpsgroup.com

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60 14th Street South
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