Project Arc’s Architecture
What if the biblical measurements are right—but the familiar geometry is not?
Project Arc reexamines Noah’s Ark, the Wilderness Tabernacle and its seven furnishings, Solomon’s Temple, Ezekiel’s Temple, and the New Jerusalem by returning to the biblical text—its measurements, language, construction details, and context.
Do those details require the familiar shapes—or have later reconstructions filled in what Scripture leaves open?
The difference matters. A picture can become so familiar that we begin reading its features back into Scripture. Project Arc puts the words beside the drawings and asks which details the passage actually requires.
Measurements are not architecture. The numbers establish dimensions; language, assembly, and context help us investigate the form.
Preserve the measurements.
Follow the context.
Test the architecture.
Project Arc is an investigation, not a declaration.
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Project Arc's Noah's Ark
Noah’s Ark: Context Is King
Genesis gives an Ark 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high, with three levels. Its purpose was to preserve life through the Flood. The account specifies no sail, rudder, or means of propulsion.
That context matters. A vessel built to survive has a different design problem from one built to reach a destination.
Project Arc investigates a round vessel whose geometry has no preferred horizontal direction. Shape affects flotation, stability, structural loads, and response to waves. Those are engineering questions with measurable answers.
The study compares the familiar elongated hull with Project Arc’s proposed round vessel, tracing how each uses the dimensions and what engineering can establish about its performance.
What shape best serves the purpose Genesis gives?
Built for Duration, Not Destination.
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Geometry affects flotation, stability, structural strength, and wave response.
Omnidirectional - Self-Righting - Destinationless
Ship? Ark?
Built for Duration,
Not Destination.
The Exodus Wilderness Tabernacle
The Wilderness Tabernacle:
Measurements Plus Assembly
Exodus gives more than dimensions. It describes curtains, loops, clasps, boards, coverings, and the order in which they are assembled.
Measurements establish size.
Assembly helps us investigate form.
Project Arc examines the curtain instructions—including the Hebrew wording translated “from the end”—alongside the physical construction of woven cloth. It then tests a circular reconstruction and the proposed relationship between a 314-cubit circumference and the court’s 100-cubit length and 50-cubit breadth.
Follow the cloth, then the joins, then the frame. The proposed 3.14 relationship becomes an architectural argument only when those parts describe one consistent assembly.
Mechanical engineer Andrew L. Hoy’s Project 314 research on the Tabernacle—especially his book The House of El Shaddai—helped inspire the investigation that became Project Arc.
From Andrew L Hoy's Project314.org
Project Arc's
Solomon's Temple
Solomon’s Temple: Same Measurements. Different Geometry?
First Kings describes a house 60 cubits long, 20 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high. It also describes an inner sanctuary, a porch, surrounding chambers, winding stairs, bronze pillars, and a round molten sea.
Project Arc’s circular, domed proposal brings those surrounding spaces and curved features into view. The study compares it with the familiar plan, following the porch, Holy Place, and Most Holy Place through the complete description.
Later Temple descriptions belong in the comparison, but they measure different buildings and different parts of buildings. Solomon’s house, Cyrus’s decree, and Herod’s expanded Temple are not interchangeable blueprints.
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Three Temple Descriptions
Solomon’s Temple
60 L × 20 W × 30 H cubits
1 Kings 6:2; 1 Chronicles 28:19
God
Second Temple
60 H × 60 W cubits
Length not stated
Ezra 6:3
Cyrus the Great
Herod’s Temple — 2nd Temple Expansion
Front: 100 H × 100 W cubits
Main body behind the front: 60 W cubits
Josephus, The Jewish War 5.5.4–5
King Herod
According to Mishnah Middot 4:6:
100 L × 100 W × 100 H cubits
These three structures should not be treated as interchangeable versions of the same architecture.
Have we been viewing biblical architecture through a
Babylonian–Greco-Roman–Modern Western Architectural Lens
rather than through the architectural context of Scripture itself?
Ezekiel’s Temple: Follow the Measuring Reed
Ezekiel’s guide moves through gates, courts, chambers, and the sanctuary, measuring as he goes. His route gives us a way to test the drawing: can we follow him through it, measurement by measurement?
Project Arc explores a circular arrangement. The test includes the directional gates, the stated sides, the units, and the relationship between the measured precinct and the wider land allotment.
The river flowing from the sanctuary then carries the investigation toward Revelation.
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Project Arc's New Jerusalem
New Jerusalem: From the Garden to the City
Revelation describes twelve gates, twelve foundations, a wall measured at 144 cubits, and a city measured at 12,000 furlongs. The city lies foursquare; its length, breadth, and height are equal.
Project Arc explores a hemispherical model and asks whether the measurements can be understood radially. The investigation examines “foursquare,” equal dimensions, the gates, and the connection between the Most Holy Place and the final holy city.
The city brings the journey to its culmination: God dwells with His people. How does its architecture express the vision?
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Possible → Plausible → Probable
Possible: Does Scripture permit the reconstruction?
Plausible: Does independent evidence support it?
Probable: Does the cumulative evidence favor it over competing explanations?
The evidence—not preference—moves the reconstruction forward. Probable does not mean proven.
Throughout the site, the passage stands beside the proposal. Established facts are stated plainly; deductions and interpretations are identified at the step where they enter the argument.
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Why Do the Shapes Matter?
Geometry affects how a vessel survives, how a tent assembles, and how rooms connect. It also shapes what generations of readers imagine when they open the Bible. Examining the architecture helps us distinguish what we have inherited from what the text requires.
You do not have to agree with Project Arc to investigate them. Open the passages. Examine the drawings.
Challenge the assumptions—including ours.
Scripture first. Context is king. Let Scripture interpret Scripture.
Biblical Measurements.
Contextual Architecture.