Fellowship Church
Creative Communications Building
Grapevine, TexasProject Type: New Construction
Opening: June 2002
Construction Budget: $16,000,000
Architect: Beck Architecture
A/V Installation: Signal Perfection Ltd
(SPLIS), Baltimore, MD
AD Scope: Acoustics, Audio, Video, Lighting
and Cabling Infrastructure
The Creative Communications Center (C3) at Fellowship in Grapevine, Texas, is designed for cutting-edge children’s ministries. The C3 building provides a user-friendly atmosphere to effectively accommodate the 14,000 people who utilize the facility each weekend.
The C3 Building houses a large, welcoming lobby, three group auditoriums that will seat 200, different sizes of classrooms for the church’s children’s ministry as well as a larger multipurpose room that can be used for weddings, funerals and other events. An audio-video production studio was “shelled out” to be completed in Phase 2 of the project.
Flexibility was very important in the C3 design. Because the church has grown so rapidly, the ability to adapt and change has been key. They wanted their education spaces to serve current needs while planning for the future. Carefully planned cabling infrastructure was a key component of the design to insure that the facility is well integrated with the rest of the campus and that there is a great deal of flexibility in how the space is used.
Audio, video projection and theatrical lighting were also designed with this adaptability in mind. All rooms are able to interact with the main video production and with the a/v systems in the main auditorium. There are digital consoles in all rooms which allow for many different types of activities and performances to take place in the rooms. An alternating left/right speaker system is used in the multipurpose room.
Distributed audio is used in the hallways as well as the foyer for intercom, paging and background music.
