An Ambitious Church Expansion Includes Layers of Curved Shelves
Every designer has the opportunity to excel when project challenges are assessed and skillsets are balanced. When Allen Gravitt, director of Executive West Building, Goodyear, Ariz., was hired as the framing and drywall contractor for the expansion of Risen Savior Lutheran Church in Chandler, Ariz., he followed his instincts to bring a bold design to life. Flex-Ability Concepts’ Flex-C Trac and Flex-C Arch were chosen to create curves in the new space—curves on a level not often seen.
"The footprint of the worship center is a true ellipse. On the exterior wall of the worship center there are five rows of both interior and exterior shelves. The exterior shelves were designed to be light shelves, while the interior shelves were designed with acoustic panels running in between the shelves. The shelves followed the elliptical geometry of the building footprint. Flex-C Trac and Flex-C Arch were used in the framing to form the face of all radiused shelves," says Josh Hansen, construction manager of Glendale, Ariz.-based Hansen Construction Management Group, the general contractor.