German practice Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten has completed a church and social welfare center in New Taipei City, housed in a high-rise concrete block topped with an angular roof. Rather than adopting the typical symbols of a church building, the 11-story building is instead informed by the new residential towers being built around it.
Across its 11 stories, the building houses events spaces, lecture halls, congregation areas, classrooms and welfare spaces stacked atop one another and connected by staircases and lifts at the tower’s corners.
Wrapping around the ground floor, a series of thin steel beams mirroring the roof structure enclose a double-height entrance space, which can be subdivided into four for events and gatherings. The main congregation area is a double-height, 600-seat auditorium on the third and fourth floors, with a cruciform window visible on the building’s exterior.
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