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架构师提供的文本描述。在亚利桑那州凤凰城的一个卫星社区，德巴托罗的建筑师们面临着为不断壮大的教堂制定总体计划的挑战，他们为一座以现有树丛命名的教堂开发了一种创新的建筑语言，其部分覆盖了他们的地点。

Text description provided by the architects. Challenged to develop a master plan for the growing church in a satellite community of metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, debartolo architects developed an innovative architectural language for a church named after an existing tree grove that partially covers their site.

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受10英亩开心果树的影响，以及教会将人们从他们的教堂派往世界各地以满足人道主义需要的热情，一个新的正式结构被设计出来。建筑师们开发了一座水平大教堂-一座庆祝多样性、光和材料的教堂。这种低水平建筑的组织，依偎在地球上，优雅地让成熟的树丛分享该遗址的主导地位。与全玻璃外部和入口在所有方面，巨大的屋顶遮住玻璃，并创造一个阴影的人行道周围的外部。透过玻璃立面，信徒们进入敬拜空间，用重新使用的木料包裹起来，然后下降到一系列的露台上，这些露台集中在房间中心6英尺以下的平台上。此外，支撑水平屋顶平面的主墙作为集会蓬勃发展的艺术社区的一个电枢，是对社区影响的纪念和对许多发展中国家的投资。(鼓掌)

Influenced by the 10-acre grove of pistachio trees and the church’s passion to send people from their church around the world to meet humanitarian needs, a new formal construct was devised.  The architects developed a horizontal cathedral – one that celebrates diversity, light and material. This organization of the low horizontal building, snug to the earth, gracefully allows the mature grove of trees to share the dominance of the site. With an all glass exterior and entries on all sides, the massive roof shades the glass and creates a shaded walkway around the exterior. Entering through the glass facade, churchgoers move into the worship space, wrapped in re-purposed wood, and descend into a series of terraces that focus around a platform 6-feet below grade in the center of the room. Additionally, the principle walls that support the horizontal roof plane serve as an armature for the congregation’s flourishing art community, a memorial to the community’s impact and investment in much of the developing world.  

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 Floor Plan

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这座完整的礼拜大楼可容纳1 500多人，并辅之以两座儿童教室，在三栋建筑之间架设一个室外房间。采用一种简单耐用的材料，新的结构已经暴露了砖墙，钢，裸露结构，玻璃，和重新使用谷仓木材。室内充满了各种各样的家具类型，强化了信仰社区的折中性和多样性。

The completed worship building accommodates more than 1,500 people and is complimented by two children’s classroom buildings that frame an outdoor room between the three buildings. Employing a simple and durable material palate, the new structures have exposed masonry walls, cor-ten steel, exposed structure, glass, and re-purposed barn wood. The interior is filled with a variety of furniture types reinforcing the eclectic and diverse nature of the faith community.

Architects debartolo architects

Location 2777 S Gilbert Rd, Chandler, AZ 85286, USA

Category Churches

Design Team Jack DeBartolo 3 AIA (Design Principal /Lead Designer), Eric Huffman RA, Michael Roth, Morgan Pakula RA, Tommy Hancock

Area 42000.0 ft2

Project Year 2014

Photographs Bill Timmerman