{"id":404,"date":"2025-06-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2025-06-12T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:17:57","slug":"from-churches-to-homes-conversions-and-contemporary-renovations-that-fuse-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/from-churches-to-homes-conversions-and-contemporary-renovations-that-fuse-past-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"From Churches to Homes: Conversions and Contemporary Renovations That Fuse Past and Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1030944\/from-churches-to-homes-conversions-and-contemporary-renovations-that-fuse-past-and-present\/684186ea516550017f8552ec-from-churches-to-homes-conversions-and-contemporary-renovations-that-fuse-past-and-present-photo\" rel=\"attachment\" title=\"featured_image\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Church Residence \/ Michiru Higginbotham. Image \u00a9 Katherine Lu\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"The Church Residence \/ Michiru Higginbotham. Image \u00a9 Katherine Lu\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/de-iglesias-a-casas-reconversiones-y-renovaciones-contemporaneas-que-fusionan-presente-y-pasado_4.jpg\"><br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  <small>The Church Residence \/ Michiru Higginbotham. Image \u00a9 Katherine Lu<\/small><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>What does a change in use and\/or scale in buildings imply? How can a church or chapel be transformed into a home? While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/896982\/contemporary-religious-architecture-that-rethinks-traditional-spaces-for-worship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the architecture of many contemporary sacred spaces shows a remarkable capacity for adaptation and evolution<\/a>, the creative boundaries of many professionals extend beyond their conception as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/942712\/what-is-sacred-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">structures of spirituality or worship<\/a>. Globally, the conversion of large churches and small chapels into private residences reveals a wide field for intervention and exploration, one that can preserve, restore, adapt, and\/or renew the character of spaces originally conceived for other uses and scales, which for various reasons have been abandoned, become obsolete, or now require transformation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1030944\/from-churches-to-homes-conversions-and-contemporary-renovations-that-fuse-past-and-present\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church Residence \/ Michiru Higginbotham. Image \u00a9 Katherine Lu What does a change in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}