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St Josephs Catholic Church Bracken Ridge On the western slope of a hill in suburban Bracken Ridge, the site, which is shared with the parish primary school, has dramatic views beyond the surrounding houses to the distant D'Aguilar Range. The parish requested the church building to form a gateway to the campus comprising church, school, hall and parish offices. |
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St Josephs Catholic Church Bracken Ridge The steeple that houses the clerestory servces as a symbol of the parish within the broader community. The challenge of this scheme was to bring the western mountains and sky quietly into the assembly, while maintaining the focus of the space on the ritual action and filtering the distractions of the suburban elements in the foreground. The clarity of the action is maintained by a 9m high clerestory above the sanctuary providing indirect light to the area. An integrated system of computer-controlled shading devices regulate the internal environment to avoid problems of heat and glare. |
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St Josephs Catholic Church Bracken Ridge The building has a clearly defined triangular plan with the Bapistry and entry at one corner and the Reconciliation and Blessed Sacrament Chapels at the other two corners. The sanctuary is central to the long western wall an dprojects into the assembly. Concrete and steel materials express their own character without adornment and contrast with the warmth of the natural secondary elements. |
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Mary Mackillop Catholic Church - Birkdale. The assembly space seats 400 with no-one being more than 9 rows from the centre of ritual action. The complexity of the exterior is resolved into a simple fan shape, focused on the altar which is brightly front lit from an unseen south light above. The west side of the building is fortress like and the north opens onto a protected courtyard shielded from the distractions of a traffic roundabout. The ribbed exterior provides a visual link with the fast disappearing local farm architecture and forms a vigorous texture to the concrete obscuring surface and colour imperfections, and discouraging would-be graffiti vandals. |
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Mary Mackillop Catholic Church - Birkdale cont'd. The realisation of this church saw us undertake the full process from inception to conception that included such tasks as: - Town Planning services (preparation of development applications and liaison with local authorities), - Assistance with Preparation of facilities brief with client groups, - Schematic Design, - Design Development, - Construction Documentation, - Calling tenders, - Contract Administration during construction stage, - Post Construction services, - Co-ordination of other professional and specialist consultants, - Religious furniture design and documentation (Altar, Ambo, Chair, Tabernacle, Cross, credence tables, kneelers, Stations of the Cross, - Interior design and furniture selection. |
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All Saints Albany Creek This simple square building with a pyramid roof, houses an unconventional assembly area which seeks to implement changes to the traditional arrangement of Catholic worship space arising from the Second Vatican Council. The design of the church aims to provide a simple yet strong building with an elegant and clearly expressed structure defining a well-lit and generous worship space. |
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All Saints Albany Creek The bapistry is located at the entry, symbolising entry into the life of the Church, birth and renewal. The vestals comprising the font allow allow for full immersion of both infants and adults. The roof is supported on 12 sturdy concrete columns and held clear above the walls on steel beams providing clarity of structure and encouraging light and breezes deep into the building. As aa counterpoint to the main pyramid roof, the porte cochere roof is raised in greeting on branching columns, resembling the parish logo. |
