Heritage Fellowship
Reston, VA
Awards
2015 Honorable Mention – Fairfax County Exceptional Design Awards
Project Type
– Worship
Services
– New Construction
– Renovation
The Project
New two-story, approximately 75,000 SF church complex with a partial cellar level. This new campus enlarges the existing church area with a new sanctuary, chapel, fellowship hall, classrooms, offices, choir rehearsal space, and courtyard.
Structural Features
The building is steel framed with composite concrete floors and a metal deck and steel joist roof. The main sanctuary is a tall, vaulted space with large steel trusses configured with a perimeter tension ring. Due to the unusual configuration of the sanctuary and the glass clerestories and walls, a 3-dimensional finite element analysis was performed for the entire sanctuary structure with metal plate strapping installed in the roofs and steel moment frames to properly resist the lateral loads.
