Haven Gymnasium

The Haven Church gymnasium is located in Glendale, Arizona, approximately 17 miles from the central business district of downtown Phoenix. The first building in a multi-phase master plan for the 10-acre site, the new sports complex allows the congregation to generously offer recreation and organized sports programs to the surrounding community and members of the church. A new plaza links the original church building and the new gymnasium, creating an entry courtyard filled with benches and native mesquite trees. The geometry of this carefully articulated plaza was influenced by the grid of development that blankets much of the neighboring urban context. A unique fog fountain developed by the architects and landscape architects interrupts this geometry and brings much needed cooling vapors out of the ground around a ring of large harvested boulders to create a pleasant natural gathering space.

The 20,000 sf multi-sport gymnasium offers four practice courts or one large competition court and accommodates up to 500 spectators for tournament games on natural wood bleachers. The court is striped for NCAA and high school for both basketball and volleyball – allowing the gymnasium to serve the broadest range of the community and local universities who lack recreational facilities. In addition to the large competition wood floor regulation competitive courts, the building offers a warming kitchen to sell concessions as well as full size restrooms, locker rooms and single use showers. A coaches meeting room with private bathroom with shower is another amenity for this highly resolved building for the church and community.