c3 PROGRAM

9/23/04

“Central City Castle” – Proposed Program Outline
RICH HAMMING – THESIS I – LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY – FALL 2004

Proposed Site: 13.5 acres (588,060 s.f.)
Proposed Church & School Complex: 130,000 s.f.
Proposed Church: 75,000 s.f.
Proposed School: 55,000 s.f.
Proposed parking area: 104,544 s.f.


K-5 Elementary School for 500 students:
 Outdoor spaces:
o Garden, which is un-shaded with open ground
o Landscaping and plantings for all seasons
o Large-movement area, entirely sun-shaded but open to the elements
o Play equipment
o Space to run
o Ride-on toys
o Sheltered area, sun-shaded and rain-protected
o Sandboxes and outdoor equipment not involving large scale movement
o Separate play area for Kindergarten children ideal
 Community Hall:
o For sports or gatherings (200 minimum)
o Main hall
o Toy library
o Kinder-gym storage
o Chair storage
o Changing rooms
o Reception area
o Kitchen
 Classrooms:
o K-3 (750 sf each and 25 sf/child – 24/class maximum)
• K-5 in Elementary (math, language arts, social studies, science)
o 4-8 (660 sf each)
• 6-8 in Middle (English, math, social studies, general science, physical education, health, industrial arts, home economics, arts and crafts, and vocal music)
• Electives: speech, foreign languages, typing, instrumental music and student activities
o 9-12 (600 sf each)
o Ideal ratio for Elementary schools:18-20 classes = 450-550 students
o Ideal size for Middle and High schools: 600-900 students
o Should provide 100 sf minimum for storage per room
 Community Room for Elementary School: 600 sf + 200 sf storage
 Corridors
o Consider lockers in Elementary for health reasons (such as head lice)
o Cannot hang coats in corridor due to fire regulations
o 8 ft minimum width
 Toilet Rooms
o K-5 within wing of classes
o Elementary: 20 students/class – adjacent may share self-contained Boys and Girls toilet rooms
o 6-8 closer than 9-12
o 9-12 adequate for that floor
 Stairs & Elevators


 Art:
o Elementary (1500 sf instructional; 350 sf storage/work area/cabinets; 150 sf kiln room = 2000 sf)
• Storage area for art supplies
• Adequate ventilation is required due to various fumes
• Provide 110 and 220 volt outlets
• Provide emergency shut-off switch
• Provide wash-up sinks with traps that can accommodate large amounts of plastics
• Provide project storage lockers minimum 12 x 18 x 12 inches
• Pottery tables to have concrete tops
• Shelving to accommodate bulky supplies including large rolls of paper
• Provide abundant tackboard space
• Display cases with visibility from Corridor side: 12-18 inches deep
• Provide directional/track lighting
• Separate room for stainless steel pug mill and kiln with direct exhaust ventilation
• Provide safety devices: fire blanket, fire extinguisher, safety goggles, eye wash station, emergency first aid station over each sink
• Floor to be unsealed/un-waxed concrete
• Exposed structure above to hang projects
• Windows to be high to provide tack boards below
• Work tables to butcher block that can be refinished (2 students/table)
• 1 table to have chemistry top
• Small library area
• Provide compressed air into room
• Metal cabinet for solvents
• Possible equipment: jewelry tables, pottery wheels, printing press, dark room
• Provide a platform for models
o Middle School (1820 sf)
o High School (2370 sf)
 Music:
o Elementary (1000 sf)
o Middle School (1400 Instrument / 1200 Choral / 1400 Combined)
o High School (1800 Instrument / 1500 Choral / 1600 Combined)
o 400 cubic feet per student (high ceiling)
o Can use acoustical treatment on walls and ceiling, carpet on floor and non-parallel walls to achieve desired acoustics
o Provide sink with hot and cold water
o Provide humidity control
o Recommend area in Elementary be 1300 sf
 Science:
o Middle School (1000 sf)
o High School (900 Lab / 1000 Classroom-Lab)
 Wood Shop (M/H)
 Home Economics / Basic Home Management (M/H): sewing laboratory station and foods laboratory station
 Drafting (M/H)
 Computer Rooms (or part of homerooms or room in Library)
 Foreign Languages
 Library / Media Center / Learning Resource Center / Instructional Materials Center / Information Resource Center / Instructional Media Center (1900-8850 sf)
o For 265 students: 3510 sf
o For 565 students: 5010 sf
o Browsing and stack area (10% of enrollment x 40 sf/student) = 1060 sf / 2260 sf
o Conference Room 150 sf
o Group Projects (instructional) 500 sf / 600 sf
o Professional Library and Production Room for Teachers and Students 400 sf
o Processing Workroom 200 sf
o Materials Storage 500 sf / 600 sf
o Equipment Storage (A.V.) 400 sf / 500 sf
o Administration space 300 sf
 Theater (1500 sf)
 Gymnasium/Assembly space: (30 students to 1 teacher ratio)
o Elementary (5000 sf) [4000 sf minimum + 400 sf storage]
o Middle School (16000 sf)
o High School (22000 sf)
o Recreation Area for Church use:
• 70 x 120 ft (8400 sf)
• Basketball court (ceiling: 20-25 ft;
• Game Room (24 x 30 to 40 x 60)
• Group Meeting Rooms w/ tables and chairs (24 sf/person)
o Direct storage
o Showers, dressing, and locker rooms
• Separate locker/shower room for adults 600 sf
o Balcony level over locker rooms, etc. can provide for other floor activities and extra bleachers for good observation of main floor
 Food Service
o Elementary kitchen 600 sf minimum + 200 sf storage [1600 sf for Kitchen and support areas]
o Elementary cafeteria to have 300 sf storage
o Cafeteria/Assembly space: all-day students/3.15 x 10
o Provide adjacent storage for cafeteria
o For 500 students: 210 seats, 1650 sf Kitchen space, 800 sf serving space, and 2 service counters
 Administration
o 1 full-time administrator per each 500 students and 25 instructors
o Reception
o Principal’s Office
o Counseling/Guidance (Reception and Office)
o Speech Correction
o Storage for school records
o Storage for supplies
o Clinic
o Teachers’ Work Rooms
o Toilets
 Child Care Center
o 35 sf per child
o Rooms must have direct access to outdoors
o Program Director Office
o Staff/Volunteers’ Lounge
o Equipment for:
• Large muscle
• Small muscle
• Art
• Music
• Literature
• Sensory exploration
• Social interaction and dramatic play
• Discovery (structuring and restructuring)
• Rest (for children attending over 5 hours)
o Indoor Activity Space
o Outdoor Activity Space (minimum 2000 sf or 75 sf /child)
 Example Space Allocations for Elementary Schools with 360 students {565}:
o Administration (1200 sf)
o Staff Room (500 sf)
o Kindergarten Room (1500 sf) {2 x 1500 = 3000 sf}
o General Classrooms (12 x 900 sf = 10,800 sf) {18 x 900 = 16,200 sf}
o Academic Support Center for Special Education [L.D. Room and 3 Specialist offices] (1800 sf)
o Art Room (1200 sf)
o Music Room (1000 sf)
o Library/Media Center (2700 sf) {3600 sf}
o Small Gymnasium (4000 sf)
o Cafetorium/Community Room with Stage (2400 sf)
o Serving Kitchen (600 sf)
o Area for Teaching Stations and Administration (27,700 sf) {35,500 sf}
o Storage and Toilets (3,500 sf) {5,000 sf}
o Area for Circulation, Heating, and Custodians [35%] (9,695 sf) {12,425 sf}
o Total: 40, 895 sf [114 sf/student] {53,925 total at 95 sf/student}

Church with Sanctuary for 1,200 people:
 Sanctuary (up to 300: 17 sf/person; over 300: 13 sf/person) churchplansforless.com
o 36-38 inch row spacing
o 18 inches/person in pews
o Maximum 24 persons/row
o 7 sf/person for non-fixed seating
o Example: 500 seat auditorium = 750 lf of pews (actual capacity is 80%: 400)
o Chair widths: 21-22 inches
o Barrier Free seating:
• 4-25 capacity = 1 space
• 26-50 = 2
• 51-300 = 4
• 301-500 = 6
• 500+ = 6, plus 1 for each increase of 100
o Center aisle width 5-6 ft
o Side aisle width 4 ft
o Balcony?:
• Layout based on site lines – rear location is best
• Capacity to be less than 50% of main level
• Riser depth 3 ft
• Cross aisles 4 ft minimum
o Expansion space for large attendance times
o Possibly use “multiform” plan type time-saver standards for building types 4th edition
o Air-conditioning!
o Use of natural light and artificial light
o Allow 12 sf per seat (including platform, sacristy, vestry and vestibule
o Allow 8 sf per person if only seating area plus aisles
o Altar: 48-96 inches long x 28-48 inches wide x 40 inches high
 Chancel:
o Choir Area: churchplansforless.com
• Minimum 10-12% of Sanctuary capacity
• Maximum 35% for large churches
• Choir rows to be 36-42 inches
• Movable chairs at 24 inches width per person and 36 inches back to back



o Platform: churchplansforless.com
• 7-15 feet minimum front to back
• 10-12 feet clear to front row
• 6 inches above main floor
o Altar/communion rail: 36 inches a.f.f. maximum with 6-8 inch broad top
o Organ and piano
o Band area
o Projection screen(s)
 Vestry: Pastor robing room with connected private toilet room (adjacent to Chancel)
 Baptistry Area:
o Inside dimensions: 4 x 7 ft minimum
o Water depth: 42-44 inches
o Baptistry floor approximately 39 inches above last choir row
 Robing Rooms
 Toilet Rooms
 Media Control
 Bride’s Room and Toilet: near rear of Sanctuary
 Cry Room (adjacent to Sanctuary)
 Usher
 Coat Rooms adjacent to Lobby
 Choir Rehearsal Room and Robing Rooms: near Sanctuary
 Offices:
o Pastor’s study (250-325 sf)
o Director of Christian Education
o Church School Superintendent
o Staff offices (150-200 sf each): Secretary, Treasurer, Choir Director
o Other needs: reception, work rooms, storage/closets, lounge, kitchenette, copier
 Fellowship Hall:
o Dining capacity: 50% of Sanctuary seating capacity
o 15 sf / person for table seating
o Multi-purpose space that can be divided into classrooms by movable partitions
 Kitchen:
o Commercial grade, stainless steel equipment
o Locate cooking line on exterior wall for hood exhaust
o Alternative “warming kitchen” to have 2 residential dishwashers, 2 microwaves, and 2 ranges
 Storage
 Janitor’s Closet
o 1 per every 10,000 sf of building
o No building area farther than 150 ft
 M/E spaces
 Bookstore?
 Educational Facilities:
o 45-55 sf per person
o Nursery (infants, toddlers, crib room, toilet):
• 35 sf per child
• 12 x 18 ft minimum each room
• Windowsills minimum 24 inches a.f.f.
• Provide tack boards from 14-48 inches a.f.f.
• Separate infant and toddler rooms
• Nursery I (birth to 18 mos): maximum 8-10 cribs/bassinets per room (at 3 ft intervals), changing tables
• Nursery II (18-35 mos): maximum 8 children per room, adjoining toilet room with junior fixtures (toilets 10 inches and sinks 24 inches a.f.f.)
• Nursery III (age 3): maximum 15 children per room, adjoining toilet room…see above



o Children’s classes (see under School above)
• Kindergarten I (age 4): 35 sf / child – up to 20 children per room
• Kindergarten II (age 5): 35 sf / child – up to 20 children per room
• Kindergarten tack boards from 24-54 inches a.f.f.
• 1st grade (age 6) / 2nd grade (age 7) / 3rd grade (age 8): 30 sf / child – up to 25 children per room
• same for 4th, 5th and 6th grades
• Provide a larger assembly space
o Youth and Adult classes (12-15 sf per person):
• Junior High: 60-100 children in groups of 15-20
• High School: 50-90 children in groups of 20
• College Group: up to 50
• Young Adults (age 24-35): 25 max per room, 10 sf per person
• Adults (35-64) – on first floor
• Older adults (65 +) – on first floor
• Family Counseling
o Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts/Brownies/?
 Chapel
 Children’s Chapel (use Fellowship Hall)
 Vestibule/Lobby/Narthex:
o 2-3 sf per seat in Sanctuary
o For lobby into Fellowship Hall or Sunday School spaces: 20-27% of Sanctuary space
o Visitor Center area
 Welcome Room/Church Parlor with fireplace

Parking:
 1 space for each 6 seats in the Sanctuary (1 for each 3 according to churchplansforless.com)
 1 space for each 2 employees of Child Care Center
 3 spaces for each 2 classrooms OR 1 space for each 4 seats in Auditorium [Elementary]
 3 spaces for each 2 classrooms OR 1 space for each 3 seats in Auditorium [Middle School]
 5 spaces for each classroom OR 1 space for each 2 seats in Auditorium [High School]
 Parking spaces: 9 ft X 20 ft
 Parking lot aisle width: 20 ft
 124 cars / acre

Site/areas:
 Elementary (10 acres and 1 acre for each 100 students) englehardt’s complete guide…
 Middle School (20 acres and 1 acre for each 100 students) englehardt’s complete guide…
 High School (30 acres and 1 acre for each 100 students) englehardt’s complete guide…
 Available current site (2 areas): 13.5 acres
 Building area per student: ohio school design manual
o Elementary (114.4 sf)
o Middle School (136.7 sf)
o High School (154.2 sf)
 Church site ideal sizes:
o Rural (200 people/acre) [13.5 x 200 = 2700]
o Suburban (150 people/acre) [13.5 x 150 = 2025]
o Urban (75-100 people/acre) [13.5 x 75 = 1012; 13.5 x 100 = 1350]