{"id":999,"date":"2012-10-16T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T12:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.247.72.45\/~evansdavis\/?p=999"},"modified":"2012-10-16T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T12:52:37","slug":"do-architectural-firms-provide-vision-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/do-architectural-firms-provide-vision-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Do architectural firms provide vision planning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/Evans-davis.org\/~evansdavis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dumb-920-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1004\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Vision Planning is Key\" src=\"https:\/\/Evans-davis.org\/~evansdavis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dumb-920-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dumb-920-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dumb-920-1.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Most architectural firms provide some sort of a planning process. Typically, they hold a number of focus meetings, with various groups and leaders, to learn of everyone\u2019s needs and desires when it comes to modifications and changes to the current facilities. This is often referred to as developing a \u201cspace\u201d vision.<\/p>\n<p>Evans\/Davis provides a program that develops a vision for \u201cministries and mission.\u201d It is important that a vision that takes in a long-range look at those ministries that need to be developed, improved upon or expanded is completed before a \u201cspace\u201d vision is developed. The old rule of thumb \u2013 \u201cfunction before form\u201d \u2013 applies in most cases. A visioning retreat of church leaders that determines ministry priorities is usually the best course of action prior to an architectural firm developing a long-term space vision.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the firm recommends that fund-raising counsel be brought in first followed by the architectural firm. Working together, the two companies are best able to come up with a vision plan that emphasizes ministries and how church space can be arranged to foster and enhance these ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most architectural firms provide some sort of a planning process. Typically, they hold a number of focus meetings, with various groups and leaders, to learn of everyone\u2019s needs and desires when it comes to modifications and changes to the current facilities. This is often referred to as developing a \u201cspace\u201d vision. Evans\/Davis provides a program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evans-davis.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}