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Peace Lutheran Church is going
iderground, but the members are
ot hiding from anyone — they are
ly trying to escape the high energy
Us that plague churches and other
fge buildings.
In fact, said Rev. Stan Sultemeir,
astor of the congregation that is
[uilding its new meeting-place
gely underground, the church is
| in a “prime visible location” — at
WOO FM 2818, in the Southwood
Valley.
The congregation, organized by
ultemeir in September 1977, has
mited funds, so it must make the
jest use of its building area and utili-
ies, Sultemeir said.
Rodney Hill, an associate profes-
hr of environmental design at Texas
l&M University and architect of the
milding, said, “Nature is the best
nergy device.”
The church’s design utilizes sever-
|l different natural devices that cut
nergy consumption, the most visi-
ile of which is covering three sides of
hebulding with 11 feet of dirt.
The north and west sides of the
wilding are covered with dirt to a
leight of about of 11 feet, and the
ast side is partially covered.
All entrances to the building are
in the south and east sides.
“At six to eight feet underground,
ou achieve the mean temperature, ”
lill said, which ranges from the low-
• to the mid-70s.
The church only has to deal with
leating or cooling up or down from
hat range rather than competing
vith the outside air temperature.
Several natural devices were em-
iloyed to maximize air circulation in
he building, the first being the prin-
:iple that warm air rises.
Above the northwest corner of the
anctuary, a glassed-in “wind scoop”
is perched, which serves as a chim-
»ey to vent warm air when the win-
lows are opened.
Hill said the breeze blowing across
She wind scoop creates a suction
which “sucks out all the heated air. ”
Air enters low on the south and
east sides through screen doors and
iort ofwhaliil exits through the wind scoop and
rtant counlp windows high on the north side of
Id — the Ft ll 16 building to cool the area of the
ther toward
nagogic u
ses of asphalt that the wind will blow
over and heat up.
Despite the unique design and
construction of the church. Hill said
it did not cost any more than a similar
above-ground structure, because a
“tilt-up” concrete construction was
used in which the walls were poured
in sections, then raised and joined
together.
The building cost about $190,000,
he said.
Generally, they (underground
buildings) would run a little bit
more, but you would get all of that
back in a few years just because of the
energy consumption, Hill said.
“One of the nice things about this is
that, instead of using a lot of money
for energy maintenance for the next
years, they’ll be able to put that into
service rather than into utility com
panies.”
Sultemeir said the church would
not be completed when the contrac
tors have finished their work. The
patios, sidewalks, cabinets( flooring,
and much of the sheetrocking and
painting will have to be done by the
members.
Hill and his wife Susan, who
carved the A&M Centennial wood-
carvings which hang in the Memorial
Student Center, are carving the bap
tistry, altar table, crucifix and cand
lesticks for the church.
“It’s going to be fun because there
will be some really unusual pieces of
furniture, Hill said.
Other than the wood carvings and
one stained-glass window, Sultemeir
said the church would be a no frills
church, and because of space and
financial limitations, the sanctuary
will double as a recreational area.
“It goes from a sanctuary — I
would say withing two minutes — to
a recreational area, ” Sultemeir said,
“Everything is portable.”
The building is about 85 percent
complete right now and they hope to
be in by the end of January, Sul
temeir said, “But we’re going to have
a Christmas eve service right here (in
the sanctuary), even if it’s like this.
“We’ve got that agreed with the
contractor.
“We ll get a couple of bales of hay
as an altar, and we’ll ask people to
bring candles and folding chairs. I
think we’ll probably have a pretty
good crowd. ”
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and a recreational area.
The classroom, office and nursery
areas are cooled by wind currents
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