| dc.contributor.author | Reim, Philip | |
| dc.description.abstract | American church buildings age, deteriorate, and vanish, their
congregants dwindling and lacking the financial resources to
build or maintain them.
Simultaneously, a global pandemic sheds light on shortcomings
in emergency readiness, particularly related to emergency
treatment capacities.
The two problems need not be addressed in isolation. The place
where people take refuge in God can easily and logically become
the place where they take refuge from disaster. This thesis will
seek to address specific issues facing church congregations
and emergency care centers through an innovative design
solution drawing on the historic association of churches with
disaster-related health care. The adaptive church building will be
designed as a community asset, used normally by worshipers
but converting to function as a sophisticated field hospital in
times of increased need. As this mixing of typologies will benefit
not only the faithful few but also local populations at large,
charitable relief groups and non-government organizations will
be incentivized to supplement the churches’ own diminishing
means of building and maintaining them. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU policy 190.6.2 | en_US |
| dc.title | Built on the Rock | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.type | Image | en_US |
| dc.type | Presentation | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-03T17:42:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-08-03T17:42:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31975 | |
| dc.title.alternative | Built on the Rock: A Hybrid Typology Combining Worship and Emergency Care Functions for a Sustainable Model of Church Building and Community Resilience | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | en_US |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Architecture (MArch) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences | en_US |
| ndsu.department | Architecture | en_US |
| ndsu.program | Architecture | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Mahalingam, Ganapathy | |
| ndsu.award | Peter F. McKenzie Memorial Award for Architectural Design Finalist | en_US |
