Project: All Saints’ Episcopal Church
Firm: Marlon Blackwell Architects
Contractor: Flintco LLC
Location: Bentonville
Significant constraints and steep topography on site result in a small triangular footprint that informs and influences the form of the All Saints’ Episcopal Church. The scale is adjusted to provide an iconic figure towards the busy highway to the north and a pedestrian scale facing the residential neighborhood to the south. To connect with the larger artistic community centered around the nearby Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, spaces for the incorporation and display of art are included throughout the church. As the form projects from the hillside, expansive views of the Ozark hills nearby are revealed, but face east and west so a continuous veil of white perforated aluminum panels wraps the exterior to control the daytime sun. The veil is then backlit to become a beacon at night. The chapel and auricle is accessible from the nearby trail system as a wayfarer chapel, further connecting the church to the community.
Owner/Client: Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas
Project Team: Marlon Blackwell, FAIA;
Meryati Johari Blackwell, AIA; Kertis Weatherby, AIA; Cydney Jaggers, Assoc. AIA; William Burks, Assoc. AIA; Stephen Reyenga, Assoc. AIA; Jonathan Boelkins, AIA; Justin Hershberger, Assoc. AIA; Bradford Payne, Assoc. AIA; David Jaehning, AIA
Consultants: Engineering Consultants Inc., Buro Happold Engineering, CEI Inc., Michael Boucher Landscape Architecture, Buro Happold Engineering, Dr. Tahar Messadi, GTS Inc.
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