Planning & Implementing a Successful

Church Interior Finishes

Restoration Project

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Learning Objectives

• Learn the key steps in planning a church restoration/renewal project from pre-construction/design, including assessing existing conditions, development of treatment options, budgeting, reaching consensus in a collaborative process, through implementation

• Learn about the collaborative process of evaluating what to conserve, restore,

replicate or add to a sacred space • Understand the creative and material resources that go into design and production of

artwork and architectural ornament • Gain a sense of the coordination and timeframe needed for field investigation, studio

design and production, onsite treatments and installation of new elements.

What is EverGreene?

• Planning & Design

• Plaster Restoration & New Design

• Decorative Painting

• New Murals

• Mural Conservation

• Specialty Contracting

• Scagliola

• Historic Finishes Investigations

• Stone, Wood & Metal

• Novawall Acoustic Fabric Panels

• Over 200 Churches

• More than 12 Cathedrals • 31 State Capitols • Over 200 Theaters • Scores of Courthouses, Commercial Buildings,

Private Residences & Institutional Properties

Art Science Construction

Essential to Restoration & renewal

Key Steps in Planning Your Church Renewal

Pre-Construction Design & Planning • Assessing Conditions • Development of Design, Treatment

Options, and Budgets • Reaching Consensus in a Collaborative

Decision-Making Process • Coordination of Design and Construction

Team

Implementation • Project Logistics and Management • Scaffolding • Restoring an Occupied Space

• Restoration of an Historic Church • New Design in an Existing Church • New Construction & New Design

Pre-Construction: Understanding the Building

• Establish Project Intentions

• Research: • Perform In Situ Investigation: finishes, plaster, wood,

marble, mural • Review Historic Photos & Documents • Review Historic Precedents

• Findings & Recommendations • Treatment Options

Project Planning

• Define Scope of Work & Menu of Options • Prepare Budget Ranges & Value Engineering Alternatives • Establish Schedule • Provide Fundraising Tools: Renderings & Mock Ups • Project Logistics & Scaffolding • Trade Coordination & Sequencing

Identifying Materials Investigating Pathologies Consideration of Building Systems & their Impact on Substrate & Finishes

Understanding the Physical Building

Historic Finishes Investigations Provide Valuable Information for Well Designed Projects

Levels of Intervention

• Conservation • Restoration • Replication • New Design

• Establishes quality of workmanship

• Allows for design refinement prior to full-scale implementation

• Verify design decisions at full scale

• Generates enthusiasm and spurs fund-raising by sharing the dramatic improvement and vision with the congregation

Onsite Mock-Ups

Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Kansas City, MO

St. Francis Xavier Church New York, NY

• Historic Finishes Investigation

• Mural Conservation Study

• Mural Conservation

• Plaster Restoration & Repair

• Decorative Painting: • Tromp l’oeil • Stenciling • Glazing • Highlighting

• Straight Painting

• Marble Flooring Installation

Study the original design, prior decoration, and evolution over time, and then establish the target period of significance and restoration priorities and goals.

Inventory of Architectural Components and Current Conditions

Determine how much of the historic fabric and decorativ

scheme is extant.

• Microscopy, chromochronologies

& color matching • Laboratory and media analysis

Determine the historically appropriate color palette for the important interior design elements of the space

Understand the pathology of plaster/substrata and paint failure to help ensure a long-lasting restoration

Substrata Conditions Survey

Reflected Ceiling Plan, Plaster Survey

Systematic Estimating Ensures Accurate Budgets

Budget Development

Scheduling & Project Management

Education • Town meetings • Make the process exciting • Rally public support • Regular project team meetings

Safety • Signage • Barriers for egress and access • Fire safety (extinguishers, identified

evacuation routes) • Ventilation • Regular clean-up

Discreet Operations • Separate entrances for the public • Dust and noise control • Isolate and contain the work area • Work during off-peak hours

Decorum & Site Safety

Mechanical & Chemical Plaster Consolidation

Flat & Ornamental Plaster Repair

Sculpture Repair

Stone Cleaning

• Straight Painting

• Priming

• Base Painting

• Polychromy

Painting & Decorative Finishes

St. Matthew’s Cathedral

Washington, DC

• Historic Restoration • Occupied Space • Mural Conservation • Conservation of Architectural Finishes • Mosaic Cleaning & Conservation • Marble Restoration • New Decoration: Sgraffito • Plaster • Decorative Paint • Design Development • Established Budgets

• The physical possibility of remaining occupied • The motivation behind keeping a space occupied • Restoration Goals vs. Building Functions: Level of Restoration

• Prioritizing all factors affecting the work by relative importance

Occupied Space Projects

Immaculate Conception Cathedral Wichita, KS

• Schematic Design

• Design Development

• Original Murals

• Ornamental & Flat Plaster

• Decorative Painting

Permanent Elements Stained Glass, Stone, Metal, Flooring, Plaster & Wood

Transient Elements Paint, Fixtures, Furnishings, Carpet, Draperies & Fabric

Aesthetic Concerns Consider the Balance & Harmony of the aesthetics as a whole

• Creation of Color Boards (including gilding and glazing colors)

• Presentation of Historic Color Palette /

Development of New Color Palette • Alternative Color Palettes • Considerations:

•Scale

•Rhythm

•Pattern

•Texture

•Color Harmony

•Value Relationships (Warm, Cool)

Development of Color Boards

• Itemized Conceptual Scope

• Conceptual Design

Schematic Design

PRE-CONSTRUCTION DESIGN & PLANNING

Design Phase: Religious Symbolism

Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Sacramento, CA

Baptism

Reconciliation Penance

Confession

Holy Eucharist Confirmation

Matrimony

Holy Orders

Extreme Unction

Consider the building’s symbolism and liturgical use

ntifying and incorporating unique parish identity along with universal beliefs

Surface Preparation: The Key to Durability

• Vacuuming

• Washing

• Removal of Distemper Paint

• Fiberglass Wall Surface System

• Canvas Lining

• Skim Coat

Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel Thomas Aquinas College

Santa Paula, CA

• Design & Creation of New Plaster Ornament • New Classical Sanctuary • New Mural Design • Decorative Painting

Research

St. Paul’s Westerville, OH

New Murals in a New Church

“The murals planned by EverGreene at St. Paul's Church [in Westerville, Ohio] display what is perhaps most complete, beautiful and theologically appropriate iconographic program I have seen in any parish built since the Second Vatican Council, perhaps even several decades before.” - Denis R. McNamara, Ph.D., Assistant Director, The Liturgical Institute

Creating a project that is Greater than the sum of its parts

• Apply intelligence, artistry, and craftsmanship at each step of the

process • A Church is a living, sacred building – respect the purpose it was build

for and that which it serves • Balance practical considerations with the intangible elements that

give meaning to the space

Thank you for joining us!

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This concludes The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems Course