Kings Church which started as a fellowship of eighty believers on Maui in 1980 engages church architect for auditorium refurbishment.  The Kings Church movement, started the global lead pastors, now spans over 29 nations and more than hundred thousand souls.  It’s fitting that Kings Church pastors many surfers as it shares Maui with the famous Pe’ahi break called Jaws.  The global lead pastors engaged church architect Threadgold Architecture + Construction for an inner-city gentrification project.

The architectural brief required the amalgamation of three separate buildings to transform the site into a vibrant apostolic hub.  The church architect was briefed to transform the dated, disfunctional and tired buildings and resolve the many building deficiencies.  The architectural brief prioritized the concerns of church leadership with the three existing building built progressively between 1953 and 1983.  The church architect design proposed a commercial kitchen, cafe, drive through, increased auditorium capacity, mezzanine foyer and additional teaching spaces.

The architectural design addressed the pragmatic problems with the Kings Church site: stormwater flooding, roof leaks, fire safety and airconditioned circulation.  The Kings Church site complexity, built progressively in an ad hoc manner of many decades required specialist sub-consultant input.  The bid process included selecting civil engineer, electrical engineer, fire engineer, hydraulic engineer, mechanical engineer and structural engineer sub-consultants.

The church architect incorporated a combination of rammed limestone external walls, polished concrete floors and exposed douglas fir glulam beams.  The clear dressed finish douglas fir glulam beams compliment the vertical douglas fir battens adjacent to the mezzanine foyer.  The timber battens have the additional function of deadening noise in the hard surfaced Kings Church entry foyer.  The foyer joins two stories with informal lounge area, perimeter rammed limestone seating, cafe and surrounding mezzanine that overlooks the vibrant ground floor social activity.  The church architect also utilized porcelain panels selections and mosaic feature tiling as part of the finishes palette to create a clean contemporary aesthetic.

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• Client : Private

• Location : Maui, Hawaii

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