Worship Facilities Magazine is excited to announce a new launch with the Mar/Apr 2011 edition--WF Designer--a magazine targeted specifically to house of worship architects, designers and builders.
If you're a pastor subscriber to WFM, you'll be able to see WF Designer's digital edition--available online at www.wf-designer.com. And if you're an architect, designer or builder, you'll receive WF Designer riding alongside the magazine in a plastic polybag. Either way you come across the introductory publication, we want to know what you think.
WF Designer launches as a 16-page supplement, where inside readers will find a profile of Surprise, Ariz.'s Parkway Christian Church, a contemporary gathering place perched out in the desert sand, described from the perspective of an architect, Principal Paul Ladensack with Phoenix's CCBG Architects. Ladensack entertains space, volume, form and flow in ways that probably only architects truly consider. Yet he also talks about working with the project's pastor, Trent Renner, a man of God with a vision for how best to reach people in his geographic locale. He also addresses how, as an architect, he combined various methods of design in realizing an architectural model and communicating it to Renner and church staff. And lastly, Ladensack goes into detail about items such as materials and building methods--elements that speak volumes to the builders who work closely with designers.
WFM also asked Ladensack to speak about the products used in CCBG's design for Parkway Christian. Of the hundreds of items and materials spec'd, which ones stood out to him as absolute winners in the church environment? Here you'll find items ranging from indoor and outdoor seating to acoustic materials and A/V/L equipment.
Another item we're excited about in the introductory version of WF Designer is technical writer Christian Doering's business advice column, "IPD: A Vision Coming into Focus." WFM has been talking about Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for several years, helping to prepare pastors for what it may mean in their future building projects. In the Mar/Apr 2011 issue of WFM, for example, find our feature on Building Information Modeling (BIM)--a creative 3D software oftentimes associated with the IPD process--on page 37. WF Designer now gives us the opportunity to speak to architects and builders who will use the methodology alongside you in collaborative design. IPD poses its own set of concerns for these designer professionals, such as legal questions and contractual considerations that ultimately affect pastors, too. When an architect understands IPD from the perspective of using it for church design, we believe that church leaders will come out on the winning end of what IPD can offer.
Let's talk here about the stories you'll find at your fingertips in the Mar/Apr 2011 issue of WFM, as well; the issue is absolutely full of stories that need to be told. Our writers deal with topics of Master Planning, Energy Management Tools & Incentives, and Fundraising Options that are gaining traction in 2011.
The Mar/Apr 2011 issue of WFM, our new digital edition, and now WF Designer are representative of the ways we're continually seeking to act as your trusted resource. Whether pastor--or now church design professional--we are here to serve.
