Hope City Terwillegar entails the renovation and addition to an existing church building previously owned and used by a different Christian faith community and tradition. The existing structure, a unique one with a theologically charged design, was experiencing various functional and maintenance challenges, but the Hope City leadership made an early decision to save the structure, and to adapt it to their immediate needs as well as to their longer-term vision for the overall site. The project therefore became a case study in how a church building of one tradition, worship style, and character, is passed on and converted to meet the needs of a different tradition, while bearing witness to the unity of the Christian faith at the same time. As such, the design seeks to strike a balance between accommodating drastically different functional needs and overcoming structural constraints while acknowledging, expressing, and respecting some of the more powerful symbolic aspects of the existing church building.

Location: Edmonton, Alberta

Status: Under Construction | 2022