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Spark Works Trinity
Giving a former church a new community purpose.
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Project role
Adaptive reuse, community enterprise, and space planning through Spark Works.
Project question
Relate the character and arrangement of a former church to collaborative work, creative activity, and gathering.
Documentation approach
Use the documented project history and spatial record together to explain how large shared spaces, side rooms, and circulation relate.
Available result
A spatial record accompanying documented pre-2020 coworking, artist, and event uses in an approximately 16,000-square-foot former church.
A closer look
Four ways to read this space.
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Sanctuary and gathering space
Find the large sanctuary in the dollhouse view, then explore it at eye level.
The room's scale and inherited character anchor the adaptive-reuse story. The scan does not establish a permitted occupancy.
Overview transcript
Spark Works Trinity. Adaptive reuse of the approximately 16,000-square-foot former Trinity Lutheran Church for coworking, artists, and events in Duluth. Its Matterport model makes the sanctuary and adjoining spaces explorable together. Adaptive reuse, community enterprise, and space planning through Spark Works. The project question: Relate the character and arrangement of a former church to collaborative work, creative activity, and gathering. Use the documented project history and spatial record together to explain how large shared spaces, side rooms, and circulation relate. A spatial record accompanying documented pre-2020 coworking, artist, and event uses in an approximately 16,000-square-foot former church. Explore the four reading stops: sanctuary and gathering space; side rooms and quieter work; connections between levels; a building with successive uses. Connects adaptive reuse and community enterprise with space planning, stakeholder communication, and project coordination. This is a record of the space at capture. Its project brief explains what is documented and which details remain unknown.
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Project record and sources
Project began August 2018. Historic uses are described without implying the venue is currently operating. The project start is listed as August 2018; scan date, ownership details, investment totals, occupancy, and returns remain to be documented.
Published Spark Works Trinity address; coordinates are an address estimate.
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