Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
Founded in 1948, UUCB has been growing and hired Rodwin & Skycastle to provide complete design/build services for a 9,600 sf. expansion, an 11,000 sf. remodel and a new site design. The project has included facilitating a highly inclusive visioning process for the congregation, helping them navigate a complex County and City annexation and water challenge, and working within an uncertain budget. We were able to successfully generate an enthusiastic consensus among the congregation for a biophilic design that reflects UUCB’s values of sustainability and equity, and solve tricky existing conditions and programmatic relationships. The result is a new 275 seat sanctuary, a large multi-purpose atrium that evokes the feeling of walking into a forest, two re-invigorated large social halls, and a major multi-phased remodel of the classrooms, offices, bathrooms, kitchen and various support spaces. The new building will become a beautiful, accessible, Net-Zero energy, all-electric model of sustainable building. Construction is anticipated to start the summer of ’26.
ʻʻ As the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder needed to expand, we were glad to partner with Rodwin Architecture and Skycastle Construction. I deeply appreciate the team's expertise in guiding a large community of deeply invested church members through the process of naming and refining a collective vision. Their ability to collect and synthesize input from a wide variety of stakeholders -- and keep us steadily moving forward through the process -- resulted in a project which reflects the essence of who we are while moving us steadily into the future. Along the way, their pragmatism in designing for a church-sized budget enabled us to do more than we had thought possible. ʼʼ
- Rev. David Schwartz, lead minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder