Project Arc’s Architecture
What if the biblical measurements were never the problem—but the geometry was?
Project Arc investigates Noah’s Ark, the Wilderness Tabernacle and its seven furnishings, Solomon’s Temple, Ezekiel’s Temple, and the New Jerusalem by beginning with the biblical measurements and context.
What happens when we begin with the text rather than the familiar picture?
Could some biblical structures have been more nonlinear than generations of illustrations have led us to imagine?
Preserve the measurements.
Follow the context.
Test the architecture.
Project Arc is an investigation, not a declaration.
Project Arc's Noah's Ark
Context Is King
Imagine spending about a year with your family on a vessel without propulsion or steering. Which would you rather trust—a long, narrow vessel designed for travel, or a broad vessel designed primarily to survive?
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Destination?
Genesis gives 300 cubits long × 50 cubits broad × 30 cubits high.
Yet Genesis describes no sail, oars, rudder, helm, or destination. Noah was not instructed to navigate. He was instructed to survive.
Project Arc asks whether these measurements have been interpreted automatically through conventional ship geometry rather than through the Ark’s biblical purpose.
Navigation vs Stability
6:1 Length-to-Beam Ratio — Propulsion & Steerage
1:1 Length-to-Beam Ratio— Dead-in-the-Water Stability
Geometry affects flotation, stability, structural strength, and wave response. None of this proves a round Ark. It gives us another way to test the possibilities.
Was the Ark built for destination—or duration?
Explore Noah’s Ark
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Geometry affects flotation, stability, structural strength, and wave response. One engineering relationship Project Arc examines is:
σcr = [E / 3(1 − ν²)] × (t / R)
Omnidirectional
Ship? Ark?
Built for Duration,
Not Destination.
The Exodus Wilderness Tabernacle
Measurements Plus Assembly
Exodus gives us more than dimensions. It also tells us how the structure goes together.
Exodus 26:4–6 describes 50 loops of blue and 50 gold clasps joining the curtains. Exodus 26:7–13 gives eleven outer curtains, their arrangement, remainder, and overhang.
Measurements establish size. Assembly helps reveal form.
Project Arc investigates whether these construction details produce an approximately 314-cubit circumference and how that possibility relates to the 100 cubits long × 50 cubits broad measurement of Exodus 27:18.
Mechanical engineer Andrew L. Hoy’s study of the Tabernacle and his outstanding 2015 book, The House of El Shaddai, inspired this entire investigation.
Find out more at Project314.org
Professionally rendered architectural blueprints in English and Hebrew—every measurement, detail, and biblical connection carefully examined.
The depth of detail is remarkable.
Project Arc's
Solomon's Temple
Solomon’s Temple.
Same Measurements.
Different Geometry?
Project Arc asks whether these exact measurements and architectural relationships require the familiar rectangular reconstruction—or whether the same measurements permit another geometry.
Solomon's Temple
vs.
2nd Temple
vs.
Herod's Temple
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
Major rebuilding and expansion of the Second Temple
Front: 100 H × 100 W cubits
Main body behind the front: 60 W cubits
Josephus, War 5.5.4–5
King Herod
According to Mishnah Middot 4:6:
100 L × 100 W × 100 H cubits
These were not simply three versions of the same building.
Have we been viewing biblical architecture through a
Babylonian–Greco-Roman–Modern Western Architectural Lens
rather than through the architectural context of Scripture itself?
Project Arc's New Jerusalem
Beyond the Cartesian Box
The Bible begins in a garden. It ends in a city.
Revelation describes the New Jerusalem with twelve gates, twelve foundations, a wall measured at 144 cubits, and a city measured at 12,000 furlongs, whose length = breadth = height. The city also lies foursquare.
Possible → Plausible → Probable
Project Arc uses the same standard throughout: Possible — Does Scripture permit it? Plausible — Do multiple independent biblical, historical, architectural, or engineering clues support it? Probable — Does the cumulative evidence favor it over competing interpretations?
The evidence—not preference—moves the reconstruction forward.
Probable still does not mean proven.
Revelation gives 3 gates East, 3 gates North, 3 gates South, and 3 gates West. The names of the twelve tribes of Israel appear on those gates.
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Revelation 21:16 says the New Jerusalem is foursquare, with its length, breadth, and height equal—traditionally reconstructed as a 3D cube.
Project Arc asks whether those equal measurements require a cube, or whether foursquare can also describe nonlinear geometry. If the measurements define the city’s equal outer extents rather than its exact shape, curved architecture could still preserve them.
Could “foursquare” describe four equal directions around a center, producing a radial, arched form rather than a box?
Why Do the Shapes Matter?
The shapes matter because Scripture matters.
Project Arc investigates whether Noah’s Ark, the Wilderness Tabernacle and its seven furnishings, Solomon’s Temple, Ezekiel’s Temple, and the New Jerusalem contain recurring nonlinear architectural clues.
Could the Second Temple represent a notable linear exception?
That remains a hypothesis to test.
Biblical Measurements.
Contextual Architecture.
Explore the evidence. Compare the alternatives. Reach your own conclusion.
Biblical Measurements.
Contextual Architecture.