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General Project Information

Architectural Credit:

Design Architect and Architect of Record: Trahan Architects

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Project Substantial Completion Date: 7/31/2025
Program type(s): Education - College/University (campus-level), Religious Worship
Total Site Area (gross sq. ft): 34,561 SF
Total Building Area (gross sq. ft): 4,620 SF
Project substantial completion date: 7/31/2025
Climate zone: 2A
Project site: Previously developed land
Project team: Design Architect and Architect of Record: Trahan Architects
Landscape Architect: Spackman Mossop Michaels
Structural Engineering: Morphy, Makofsky, Inc.
Civil Engineering: Morphy, Makofsky, Inc.
Mechanical, Electrical, Fire Protection Engineering: Introba (formerly Integral Group)
Acoustics and Audio-Visual Consulting: Threshold Acoustics, LLC
Cost Estimating: Cost+Plus
Lighting Design: Tillotson Design Associates, Inc
Site Survey and Topographic Survey: Gandolfo Kuhn, LLC
Sanctuary Furniture: Studio Goons, Sentient
Ceramics: Caro Burke
Metalwork: E. Kraemer, Jerry Nance
Blown Glass Vessels: Malcolm Kriegal
Statuary of St. Ignatius, Mary, and Corpus of Christ: Bruno Walpoth
Sanctuary Altar: Joseph Walsh Studio
Owner's Representative: The Tobler Company
General Contractor: MAPP

Project Overview:
The Chapel of St. Ignatius and Gayle and Tom Benson Jesuit Center was conceived to offer a place for spiritual contemplation and an inspiring space for gathering for the diverse campus community. The building’s curved spaces, which emanate to the surrounding exterior quads, fosters equitable communal intimacy for meeting, academic discussions, prayer and worship. Constructed of mass timber and clad in handmade brick, the Chapel is simultaneously contemporary and innovative in its approach to simple and sustainable construction while harmonizing with the surrounding Tudor-Gothic buildings on campus in its permanence and stability.

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