GATHER
A place for 10,000.
The proposed auditorium brings worship, teaching, and shared gatherings into one hall, with a main seating floor and three balcony levels.
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X27 FACILITY / THE FUTURE CAMPUS
A future home
for formation.
Learn deeply. Live thoughtfully.
Build something together.
The X27 Facility is a proposed ground-based home for Academy, Starforge research, and all seven Constellation divisions, with space to branch into a wider campus.
Its starship-inspired architecture expresses a shared design vision. The Staragen X27 Starship is the separate future spacecraft concept; the interior views below belong to this facility.
Explore the facility layoutX27 / FUTURE FACILITY CONCEPTAn imagined campus for learning, shared life, and purposeful work.
FROM A LEARNING PATH TO A SHARED PLACE
Give the work a home.
Give people room to grow.
The pathway begins with the person: discovery, learning, practice, and a growing capacity for responsibility. A future campus would give that work a physical setting where teaching, worship, rest, and contribution can belong to one shared life.
Academy supplies the formation pathway. X27 gathers it into a place people can enter, inhabit, and help sustain.
LEARN & DISCOVER
Academy beside Starforge.
Classrooms, a library, studios, and shared meeting spaces connect daily learning with the first research teams and their work.
Explore the shared spacesBEGIN TOGETHER
Seven divisions. One home.
Seven proposed rear decks give the full Constellation a place inside X27. Dedicated campus facilities follow as the work grows.
See how the campus growsX27 / FACILITY VIEWS
Inside
the X27 Facility.
The first facility brings Academy, Starforge research, and the seven Constellation divisions into one shared environment. These views explore the auditorium, learning commons, a working laboratory, and the shared dining room.
AI-generated architectural concepts, developed as individual views. They share a design direction but are not views from one dimensioned building model. Surrounding scenery is illustrative and does not identify a project site. Room areas, working decks, and site capacity still need coordinated architectural design.
01 / BUILDING ORGANIZATION CONCEPT
The shared home, opened up.
The main auditorium, connected Academy learning spaces, and rear division decks form one initial home. Starforge research sits within the division workspaces, with shared circulation bringing the building together.
This view explores relationships between spaces. Its floor shapes, rear levels, and auditorium volume have not been reconciled into one measured building model.
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02 / THE MAIN AUDITORIUM
A place for the gathered body.
A large teaching, worship, and conference hall. A simple rectangular presentation screen, warm timber backdrop, sculpted stage, and restrained lighting focus attention on the gathering.
Final hall geometry, vertical fit, sightlines, access, and exits still need architectural design.
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03 / ACADEMY & RESEARCH COMMONS
Learning beside the work.
A daylit interior connects Academy study, teaching, and project rooms with the rear division workspaces. Shared meeting places support collaboration, while specialist research rooms have their own access and working conditions.
Atrium atmosphere study: the visible gallery count is illustrative. The proposed floor organization is the seven-deck layout below.
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04 / STARFORGE / RESEARCH LABORATORY
A place to test and measure.
Laboratory benches, microscopes, measurement instruments, and dedicated task lighting give practical research its own working environment. Researchers work at separate stations, with storage and supporting rooms close at hand.
A representative laboratory concept. Equipment, ventilation, utilities, materials, and access would be designed for the research program assigned to this space.
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05 / SHARED LIFE / DINING & HOSPITALITY
Room to share a meal.
Dining brings learners, researchers, staff, and visitors together during the ordinary day. Smaller tables, shared meal tables, comfortable booths, and a serving counter make space for conversation and hospitality within the facility.
A shared dining-room concept. Daily meal service and major-event catering would need their own capacity, kitchen, storage, and servicing plans.
View full sizeA practical campus setting.
A few trees and modest planted areas soften the walks and campus edges, with clear space for parking, drop-off, and gathering. The grounds need to balance daily campus use with arrival for a major auditorium event.
The rest of the facility.
The images introduce the main experiences. Backstage and rehearsal rooms, kitchens, quiet rooms, student support, restrooms, loading, maintenance, and building systems still need room-by-room planning.
One coordinated design.
The next architectural step is a single site plan, floor plans, and building sections linking the exterior, seven rear decks, auditorium, and support spaces. That shared model can make later views agree on dimensions, levels, circulation, and capacity.
01 / BEGIN TOGETHER INSIDE X27
One facility.
A shared beginning.
Academy, Starforge’s research side, and all seven Constellation divisions would begin inside the ground-based X27 Facility. Teaching, research, and the divisions’ first working homes would share one building before branching into dedicated facilities across the campus.
Working layout: seven rear decks, a shared Academy wing, and the main auditorium. This is a program diagram, not a measured floor plan.
MAIN BODY / SHARED SPACES
THE MAIN AUDITORIUM
10,000audience places plannedA large-volume gathering hall for worship, teaching, convocations, and conferences.
- 4,000 main-floor places and 6,000 across three proposed balconies
- Stage, production, backstage, and rehearsal support
- Dedicated foyers, concourses, amenities, and exit routes
The hall occupies its own volume beside the rear deck stack.
ACADEMY / CONNECTED LEARNING WING
Classrooms, library & studios
Seminars, mentoring, source study, quiet reading, faculty rooms, and project studios arranged around the shared main-body concourse.
Starforge teams use shared meeting and project rooms here; their specialist workspaces sit with the divisions on the rear decks.
ARRIVAL / THE SHARED CONCOURSE
Welcome and orientation · dining and café · student support · meeting rooms · accessible connections to teaching, gathering, and division workspaces.
REAR SPINE / SEVEN PROPOSED DECKS
- D7StariserGovernance, continuity & memory
- D6StarcastleHabitation, design & hospitality
- D5StarfighterReadiness & resilience
- D4StarfieldMind, measurement & intelligence
- D3StarclusterLiving systems & formation
- D2StarcasterEnergy, optics & communication
- D1StaragenEngineering & prototyping
Shared lift and stair connections, with controlled access to research rooms and separate service circulation.
Capacity and space study
The facility concept provides approximately 777,000 square feet. The proposed building extends 1,000–1,200 feet in length and reaches 400–500 feet at its widest point.
The preliminary schedule distributes the audience across the main floor and three balconies, with separate allowances for the stage, circulation, and support spaces. Exact fit inside the facility’s tapered shell and vertical volume remains an architectural design task.
| Seating level | Audience places | Wheelchair spaces included |
|---|---|---|
| Main floor | 4,000 | 25 |
| Lower balcony | 2,500 | 15 |
| Middle balcony | 2,000 | 12 |
| Upper balcony | 1,500 | 9 |
| Total audience | 10,000 | 61 |
The total includes 9,939 fixed seats and 61 wheelchair spaces. Sixty-one fixed seats are adjacent companion seats; wheelchair spaces are reserved separately from aisles.
Keep room for the whole facility.
- Seating levels and stage allowances
- 247,500 sq ft
- Assembly support still to distribute
- 141,000 sq ft
- Assembly allocation
- 388,500 sq ft
- Academy, research, divisions and other shared uses
- 388,500 sq ft
Assembly support covers foyers, restrooms, backstage, production, service spaces, building systems, circulation and design reserve. These are preliminary area allocations, not completed room layouts.
Dimensions, accessibility and the remaining design work
Each curved row contains ten seating banks with ten places per bank. The study uses 22-inch seat modules and 42-inch regular radial row spacing. Six-foot-deep accessible row bands contain 3 × 5-foot wheelchair spaces beside companion seats. Internal and side aisle bands have nominal 6- and 10-foot arc allowances, with 10-foot cross-aisle and 20-foot rear-concourse allowances. Curved aisle continuity and actual clear widths still need design.
The main-floor and stage allowance is 300 × 300 feet. The three curved balcony allowances are 300 × 200, 300 × 175, and 300 × 150 feet. Together these reserve 247,500 square feet, leaving 141,000 square feet of the assembly allocation for support. Balcony floor areas are counted once; the open air above the audience is not counted as usable floor area. The hall occupies its own volume beside the seven rear working decks.
The source’s usable and total floor-area definitions still need reconciliation. A licensed architectural and engineering team must resolve the tapered shell, clear height, balcony geometry, structure, sightlines, acoustics, accessible routes, designated aisle seating and exits. Staff, performers, Academy learners and researchers add occupancy beyond the 10,000-person audience.
Accessibility reference: U.S. Access Board, assembly seating counts and dispersion, and wheelchair spaces and companion seating. The 61-space allowance follows the general-seating count for 10,000; the full accessibility design remains to be established.
Concept finding: the counted arrangement fits its proposed horizontal allowances and the assembly area budget. Construction-ready capacity requires the coordinated architectural design and approval.
A working home for every division
Each deck includes division offices and meeting rooms alongside its specialist spaces. Starforge connects the research across these seven homes. All 14 current research sections have a place below; shared studies can work across decks.
Vehicle design studios, simulation rooms, component benches, shared fabrication, and a service connection for deliveries.
Locate the initial engineering workspace near ground-level servicing and equipment access.
Starforge research
Later campus branch
A dedicated engineering and production facility as the work outgrows the shared building.
Optics and instrumentation rooms, signal research, communication studios, and spaces for modeling and controlled component experiments.
Keep physical research close to the engineering team while providing separately designed experimental rooms.
Starforge research
- Energy & Photonics Research
- Communication & Perception Research
- Cross-Domain & Multiscale Transduction
Later campus branch
Purpose-built physics, energy, and transmission laboratories.
Living-systems research rooms, genetics and biochemical study, cultivation studies, biomaterial planning, and formation-research seminars.
Connect scientific inquiry and intergenerational learning with the shared Academy teaching spaces.
Starforge research
Later campus branch
Specialist living-systems facilities, growing spaces, and outdoor ecological studies.
Qitronix and computational research, assessment and human-factors study rooms, quiet participant rooms, and collaborative analysis studios.
Bring the human and computational research teams together, with private rooms for participant-facing work.
Starforge research
- Complexity & Proof Research
- Qitronix Research
- Prior Unification & Formation
- Human Assessment & Field Discovery
- Embodied Human Factors
Later campus branch
A dedicated cognition, perception, and intelligence research facility.
Scenario and simulation rooms, emergency-planning studies, team training, and review spaces for protection and recovery research.
Give rehearsal and team exercises their own acoustically separated setting near the other research teams.
Starforge research
Later campus branch
Dedicated readiness, simulation, and field-training environments.
Architecture and habitat studios, culture and garment design, campus planning, infrastructure models, hospitality coordination, and shared-environment research.
Give the team designing the wider campus a shared studio inside its first home.
Starforge research
Later campus branch
Residential, hospitality, civic, and design spaces across the campus.
Council and review rooms, institutional research, leadership workspaces, archives, and records stewardship.
Provide a quieter setting for review, continuity, and the preservation of institutional knowledge.
Starforge research
Later campus branch
A dedicated governance and archive home if the institution’s scale calls for it.
Connected everyday work
Students reach teaching rooms without passing through laboratories. Researchers can meet Academy groups in shared studios. Event visitors reach the auditorium through its own foyers and concourses.
Rooms matched to the work
Initial research would use offices, modeling, simulation, and appropriately designed laboratory or prototype rooms. The fit-out must resolve equipment loads, ventilation, vibration, acoustics, access, and servicing for each activity.
Room to branch outward
All seven divisions have a home inside from the start. Dedicated campus buildings follow as teams and activities grow. X27 remains the shared home for Academy, gathering, collaboration, and the divisions’ connection to one another.
The seven rear decks are a working interpretation of the source concept’s 5–7 major levels. Each deck’s floor area and occupancy still need to be established through architectural design.
02 / ACADEMY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
A setting for the
whole learning life.
Academy supplies the teaching and practice. The future facility would give that work a shared physical home, with room for the relationships, rest, and responsibility that help learning endure.
Learn and practice
Academy teaching would gather inside X27, bringing source study, small-group conversation, mentoring, and guided projects into a shared learning environment. A learner could move from reading a difficult idea to discussing it, trying it in practice, and returning with questions. Progress would take shape through thoughtful work, feedback, and growing responsibility.
Share an everyday home
Shared tables, quiet study rooms, student support, and places to pause would support daily life inside X27. Academy learners and the divisions’ teams could meet through ordinary conversation and shared work. Residential quarters, gardens, and retreat spaces belong to the later branching of the campus.
Carry the work outward
Formation would open toward contribution in teaching, design, research, hospitality, and service. A question explored in Academy might become a model, a written study, a better learning experience, or a useful piece of shared work. Experienced people would help learners connect their developing abilities with responsibilities they are prepared to carry.
What a day here could hold
One possible rhythm of campus life, shaped around the people, the cohort, and the work.
- Gather
Begin with attention
Quiet preparation, prayer, and worship could give way to teaching and a shared question for the day.
- Explore
Take the idea seriously
Read together, meet a mentor, compare interpretations, and work through a question in a seminar or studio.
- Practice
Make a contribution
Develop a project, test an explanation, help host a gathering, or contribute to the care of the campus.
- Return
Make room for life
Share a meal, walk the grounds, reflect on the work, and make room for rest after the day’s activity.
THE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONA heart for the house.
A heart for the house.
Wisdom to build it.
The vision is rooted in worship and service under Jesus Christ. Its Davidic–Solomonic theme brings two responsibilities together: the heart that receives and carries a vision, and the wisdom that gives it an ordered, lasting form.
That connection reaches into ordinary life: how people teach, welcome a guest, care for the grounds, handle responsibility, and make room for one another. Worship, character, beauty, and hospitality give the architecture its purpose. The house is envisioned as a setting in which a community can grow in these practices together.
03 / ONE HOME, THEN A WIDER CAMPUS
The house takes shape.
The X27 silhouette has a raised central spine, a divided forward threshold, and a broad gathering body. Academy, research, and the divisions begin inside; the surrounding campus gives their later growth room.
From the Stardyne mark
to a place people can enter.
The vessel silhouette carries the idea of preparation and shared purpose into the building’s form. The forward threshold suggests arrival, the central spine gives the interior a line of orientation, and the flared rear body opens toward gathering. Teaching rooms, studios, and quieter places would give that large form a human scale. The concept remains a ground-based facility, connected to its landscape.
- 01 / The first shared homeX27 Facility
- Academy, Starforge research, and every Constellation division begin together here. The main body carries the auditorium, Academy learning wing, and shared concourse. Seven proposed rear decks give each division a working home, with research distributed across them.
- 02 / Later campus lifeAcademy residential quarters
- As the campus branches outward, nearby living quarters would support preparation, individual study, rest, and life with others. Their capacity and timing would follow the needs of the Academy community.
- 03 / Welcome, then a wider stayHospitality and retreat
- Welcome, shared dining, and visiting collaborators begin within X27. Later guest accommodation and retreat spaces would extend that hospitality across the campus, with respect for residents’ private space.
- 04 / Research begins insideStarforge and the seven divisions
- The initial research sections share the facility’s division workspaces, studios, and suitable laboratories. Dedicated research buildings are later branches of this common beginning, added when the work needs more space or specialist facilities.
- 05 / The landscape betweenGardens, paths, and shared ground
- A few shade trees, modest planted areas, and clear walking routes connect the building to its campus. Generous open areas leave room for parking, drop-off, and gathering while keeping the facility visible. Planting, drainage, and future growth belong to one practical site plan.
- 06 / What sustains the placeArrival, infrastructure, and campus care
- Parking, shared transport, drop-off areas, pedestrian connections, and service access develop with the occupied buildings. The arrival study must account for a major auditorium event alongside daily Academy and research use. Water, power, communications, maintenance, and the people who care for the campus support its lasting operation.
Staragen’s initial division home and research begin inside X27. Large-scale manufacturing and specialized testing would follow in facilities designed for those activities, on a suitable campus parcel or at an industrial or partner site.
Planning the wider campus
The long-term vision describes an approximately 250-acre campus. Site planning must coordinate the facility with parking, transport, utilities, service access, and room for later buildings.
Construction, fit-out, and opening would be staged around the needs of the first occupied building before later campus branches are added.
05 / BUILDING IN STAGES
Begin inside.
Branch out over time.
The first facility brings Academy, Starforge research, and all seven divisions together. The wider campus develops from that shared beginning, with each new building responding to a demonstrated need.
BEFORE THE FIRST BUILDING
Choose and understand the land. Turn the shared Starship layout into a room-by-room program for teaching, gathering, research, and division operations. Plan utilities, access, servicing, and the land reserved for future branches. Bring the design, resources, and operating team together around the first occupied stage.
- X27-A
Begin together inside
Establish Academy, Starforge research, and all seven Constellation divisions within X27. Shared learning, gathering, division workspaces, and everyday support form the first home. Interior fit-out and opening can be staged within this common plan.
What supports this stage
A defined site, a workable building program, committed resources, and an operating team. The design process sets the first occupied capacity.
- X27-B
Branch into the campus
Add dedicated division and research facilities as their teams and activities outgrow the shared spaces. Develop Academy residences, guest accommodation, and supporting infrastructure around the facility.
What supports this stage
Demonstrated needs, sustainable operations, and the people and resources required for each new branch.
- X27-C
Grow a connected campus
Complete the wider network of learning, research, habitation, and specialist facilities over time. X27 remains the shared gathering and formation center, connecting the divisions as the campus expands.
What supports this stage
Long-term stewardship, maintenance reserves, and an enduring purpose for the additional scale.
A place that can keep its purpose.
The full vision includes the patient work of stewardship: caring for buildings and land, sustaining teaching and hospitality, preserving the knowledge created here, and preparing future people to carry responsibility. Success would be a campus whose everyday life continues to serve the purpose that first brought it into being.
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