Bronze Interior · 2020
The Praise Assembly Church and Community Hub
- Bronze A' Design Award 2020 in Interior
- CLIENT: Brevity Studios
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 8,625
- Verification code 922EDCC013 · Verify this award
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About The Praise Assembly Church and Community Hub
The Praise Assembly is an interior design for a church and community hub in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The venue occupies about 1,400 square meters on half a floor of an office tower. The layout has three zones for worship, community and youth, and includes study areas, pantries, a therapy room, and activity and meeting rooms. Informal corridor and foyer spaces allow visitors to mingle and create their own activities. A feature wall shelf shaped like a tree canopy holds seating and bar tables. The shelf is made of birch plywood cut with CNC machines.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Praise Assembly Church and Community Hub is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. The Praise Assembly Church and Community Hub is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. The Praise Assembly Church and Community Hub splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- The ethos of this church is as much a congregation for worship as well as a community to serve and help the neighborhood. Their venue situated in Kowloon, Hong Kong, is designed to break away from a traditional space that is only used during worship, but a space that is open for the community to gather, interact and learn.
The layout has three zones - Worship, Community, and Youth. The Community and Youth spaces include study areas, pantries, therapy room, and activity and meeting rooms. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Project area is approximately 1,400 sqm, located in half a floor of an office tower.
- Tags
- Church, Community, Christianity, Youth, Religion
- Production Technology
- The feature wall shelf was designed to sculpturally resemble a tree canopy with functional seating and bar tables along its length. It was designed using parametric modelling tools and constructed from birch plywood. CNC cutting was used extensively to ensure that each piece of the geometry was fabricated as intended and interlocked securely.
- Design Challenge
- A challenge of this project was liaising with a large committee of members with different priorities; and combining their requirements into a cohesive design.
- Research
- Understanding of two different types of primary functions was required for this project – traditional church for Sunday worship and communal spaces found in lounges or co-working offices. Some research was also done for biblical stories to inform the more decorative features within the design.
- Inspiration
- The team drew inspiration from biblical stories and motifs, applying them subtly to the design of the venue. We wanted users to experience the space with a sense of adventure – to discover the meaning of its designs and features while connecting these discoveries with the knowledge of their faith.
- Project Duration
- The project is located in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. Design commenced in May 2018 and construction was completed in Jan 2019.
- Operation Flow
- The shape of project site is long and linear with the large formal spaces (i.e. worship hall, activity hall, small meeting rooms, and offices) evenly distributed across the floor plan. What brings the project to life is not the design of the formal spaces but rather the informal ‘corridor’ and ‘foyer’ spaces where visitors mingle and create their own activities.
