PRECEDENTS
PHOTOS: CHRIS KENDIG
More than 200 advocates for Philadelphia's sacred spaces joined the Community Design Collaborative and Partners for Sacred Places to launch Sacred Places/Civic Spaces on June 5th, 2018 with the Design Challenge Launch and the Precedent Exhibition Opening. The event featured The Reverend Timothy Safford of Christ Church in Philadelphia. Heidi Segall Levy and Rachel Hildebrandt introduced the sites, congregations, community partners and announced the design team matches. The Community Design Collaborative and Partners for Sacred Places asked the design community to share best practices in positioning purpose-built sacred places as community hubs. These projects – built, in-progress, or yet-to-be-built – begin to demonstrate how underutilized space in purpose-built sacred places can be activated in ways that expand the civic commons and strengthen communities. The eight projects that follow are representative of the 23 precedents on exhibition at the Center for Architecture and Design, June 1 - July 31, 2018.
28 SUMMER 2018 | context | AIA Philadelphia