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St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center

St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center

St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center

Gould Evans

ARCHITECTS
Gould Evans

PHOTO CREDITS
Assassi Productions and Michael Spillers

AREA
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

YEAR
2012

LOCATION
Kansas City, MO, United States

TYPE
Cultural › Religious, Educational › High School

This 150-seat chapel and classroom building creates a new spiritual and academic center for the school that is progressive yet rooted in its history.

The design was concerned with creating a balance between the sacred and secular academic programs, exemplifying the core values of the school.

St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center
St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center

Based on a survey of students and faculty, a vision for the chapel emerged as a soft, feminine, contemplative space of worship flooded with light and connected to nature.

There was a strong desire to connect to the narrative of St. Teresa, the patron saint of lace makers.

St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center
St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center
St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center

The design manifested this vision as a lace veil over glass shrouding the worship space and filtering light.

The state-of-the-art classrooms serve as a banquet space when combined; they are housed in a soft-edged brick form with tall windows responds to existing campus buildings.

St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center
St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center

The sacred and secular elements come together as architecture that not only completes the open end of the campus quad, but also serves as the new gateway to campus.

St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center
St. Teresa's Academy Windmoor Center

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