Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Capacity: 220 seats
Area: 10,00 sf
Construction: Concrete-filled, giant styro-foam block exterior wall, on concrete slab, steel space frame (Butler), flat, single-ply neoprene roofing over plywood, over steel deck, Stucco exterior finish. Second floor framing is light-weight concrete over steel deck over steel joists.
Construction cost: $920,000
Date of completion: 1987
Background
This was the first phase of an ambitious master plan for Vineyard that included a large 800 seat auditorium, a Family life Center, K thru 8 school and day care center and offices. The site was reasonably priced land adjacent to the major freeway that runs north and south through Las Vegas and accessible from the access west to Parumph, behind a large neighborhood casino/hotel. The first phase was designed to serve a small community of believers, fresh from their 4 year tenancy at a store-front, close to the Strip.
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About the Design
Because of the program for the future, the building was to accommodate the full height worship space and the beginnings of office space upstairs. When the new auditorium is built the second story would expand into the gap filled with the full height worship space.
Destined for its future, service occupancy, the building is unique in the materials of construction. Steel space frame roof structure, based on three-way stress-resistance, requires no intermediate framing beam. It is itself a beam. Exterior walls are of a German system called Rastra, giant sized lightweight masonry units made of recycled thin-walled styro-foam. Much like Concrete block, the cells are reinforced with steel rebar and filled with concrete.
