This project is the renovation of the existing chapel which was formerly a rooftop courtyard that was enclosed with a skylight.  In order to minimize the existing heat gain and the glare caused by the harsh sunlight, a new skylight with frit glass panels that soften the daylight will be installed.  Rogers Krajnak Architects designed a new “ceiling” as a series of parallel blade panels that will further diffuse and reflect the daylight.  These translucent blade panels span across the width of the chapel and create a gentle arched form while still allowing visitors to see the sky above.

Visitors will enter the chapel from the main hospital corridor via a recessed entrance that includes illuminated glass wall panels that depict images of caregivers integrated with images of worship and prayer from six major religions of the world.  These images help to convey that OhioHealth is a faith-based organization that, while rooted in the United Methodist heritage, is part of a larger interfaith community.

Chapel Rendering

Chapel Rendering

Chapel Entrance Door and Illuminated Glass Panels

Chapel Section showing glass wall

Chapel Floor Plan

OhioHealth commissioned Rogers Krajnak Architects to provide a design study for the renovation of a chapel in a former hospice (the former Kobacker House facility) that was renovated into a community clinic.  The goal of the project was to provide for an uplifting, calming, light-filled, interfaith space that provides a place for quiet reflection, solitude and prayer.  The design for the renovated chapel included a new arched ceiling canopy that is supported on curved wood beams.  Suspended below the original chapel ceiling, the curved beams extend from the frame of the windows that provide views into the adjacent outdoor garden.  The ceiling canopy is comprised of illuminated translucent panels that contain the imagery of branches and leaves from an overhead tree.  The imagery of these tree branches is derived from the imagery of the pear trees in the windows that Rogers Krajnak Architects designed for the new Kobacker House Chapel.

Cutaway View from Entry

Looking from the chapel entry

Looking towards the chapel entry