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Our UUFCO home provides us with an inviting and welcoming meeting place for the multitude of gatherings and activities of our Congregation, as well as for the greater Central Oregon community.  It offers beautiful spaces inside and out that invite sacred, spiritual contemplation and appreciation. 

Sketch by Architect Corey Martin

Sketch by Architect Corey Martin

Through its design, spaces have been created which foster human connection and a culture of inclusiveness, where individual faces and voices can be clearly seen and heard. Natural surroundings visually share interior spaces, enhancing connections with the natural world as well.  These aspects of our home were intentionally created through the use of clean, flowing lines that delight the eye; vertical and horizontal lines that give a sense of stability, curves that help connect us to the land and provide a gentle guiding flow, and wood and stones placed with intention toward enhancing the visual and acoustic qualities of the space. Our home offers opportunities for experiencing our world; in community, in nature, and with our visual, auditory, and tactile senses. Its design invites connection with our humanity, our spirituality, and our earth.

Aesthetics Team

Our Aesthetics Team is called to facilitate careful stewardship of all that our home represents, as a meeting place, as a spiritual space inviting awe, and as an iconic artistic and architectural contribution to our geographic region for present and future generations. We work in partnership with all congregational entities and individuals in a way that promotes mutuality and reciprocity in decision-making as it relates to our home and the aesthetic qualities embodied within it.

Aesthetics Team Statement

To maintain and protect the vision for our building,
to present an attractive, informative, and welcoming environment for members, friends and visitors,
and to be visually and spiritually pleasing.

Touchstones

  1. Maintain aesthetic integrity of the building and its surroundings

  2. Bring an intentional eye to being a welcoming place

  3. Collaborate with ART (Art Resource Team) to integrate permanent art into and around the building

  4. Make recommendations to Facilities Cluster regarding the aesthetic longevity and maintenance of the building’s interior and exterior spaces

  5. Oversee design of signage, flags, future banners

  6. Oversee additions of furnishing and fixtures intended to meet the evolving needs for utility while also ensuring strong stewardship of the aesthetic integrity of the building and its surroundings

  7. Coordinate installation and removal of interior and exterior seasonal decorations 

  8. Ensure that any improvements to the grounds are compatible and well integrated into the native landscape and existing topography

  9. Work in partnership with all congregational entities and individuals in a way that promotes mutuality and reciprocity in decision-making

  10. Endeavor to fulfill our purpose with mindful awareness of our UUFCO Covenant

Intentionality

The Aesthetics Committee recognizes our home’s primary purpose as providing an inviting and welcome meeting place for the multitude of gatherings and activities of our Congregation, as well as for the greater Central Oregon community. In addition, our home represents an iconic artistic and architectural contribution to our geographic region which, over time, will have significant historical influences as well. With deep gratitude and appreciation for our home, UUFCO has been entrusted with it’s stewardship. Similarly to how any effective homeowners organization aspires to protect the value of properties within the organization, the Aesthetics Team aspires to protect and when called to, enhance, the artistic and architectural value of our building and it’s surroundings.

We see the embodiment of this physical structure and its surroundings as comparable to a modern day cathedral. It invites, with its utilization, much more than a meeting space for our Fellowship and other organizations. It is sacred space. 

The Aesthetics Team is called to perpetuate careful stewardship of all that our home represents, as a meeting place, as a spiritual space inviting awe, and as an iconic artistic and architectural contribution to our geographic region for present and future generations.