Kevin Burke, AIA, LEED AP, William McDonough + Partners, Charlottesville, Va.
James D. House, AIA, House & Robertson Architects Inc., Los Angeles

      Fuller Theological Seminary’s Worship Center integrated environmental design strategies with the seminary’s dynamic, diverse, and evolving character. We’ll explore how the Worship Center design meets the spiritual and functional needs of the seminary, providing a place of both solitude and community and a place of silence and performance, all in the name of worship.

Learning objectives:

• Analyze approaches to integrating strategies for ecological design with strategies for creating places for worship and performance
• Discuss strategies for providing variable acoustics to performance spaces, specifically the techniques and materials used for altering spaces from acoustically wet to acoustically dry
• Develop approaches to daylighting for places of worship, with emphasis on how daylight as an element of wonder can be combined with ambient and performance lighting strategies.