LeRoy's Ark: LeRoy Troyer, the architect behind the Noah's Ark replica at Ark Encounter, Kentucky's new biblical theme park, on One-to-One #31

2016-07-18T17:11:00-04:00

The Genesis-sized replica of Noah's Ark is just the beginning of Ark Encounter, Kentucky's new biblical theme park managed by the Christian apologist ministry, Answers in Genesis. Troyer Group are the architects behind the ark, with president and chair LeRoy Troyer as the lead architect.

I spoke with LeRoy about the challenge of building a project with Biblical construction specs, as well as the inherent controversy of designing something that is meant as a kind of proof of concept for Answers in Genesis' ideology: that the Bible "is the true history book of the universe".

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The organization behind Kentucky's Creation Museum is building a Genesis-sized Ark

2015-11-18T13:45:00-05:00

The Ark Encounter is a full-sized replica of Noah’s Ark, as described in the book of Genesis. [...] the actual ark will be 510 feet long ... 85 feet wide and more than 50 feet tall, and that's before you add the sail. It can house up to 10,000 people in a pinch, and when finished will be the largest wooden timber structure in the world. [...] “People expect the quality of a Universal Studios and we’re going to give it to them.”

Perhaps not surprisingly, other riffs on Noah's Ark have already been built (although they probably aren't scaled to cubits):

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LeRoy's Ark: LeRoy Troyer, the architect behind the Noah's Ark replica at Ark Encounter, Kentucky's new biblical theme park, on One-to-One #31

The organization behind Kentucky's Creation Museum is building a Genesis-sized Ark