Following a presentation to Chardon City Council in May, 2007, Council decided to request more public feedback. They placed an advisory issue on the November ballot to create a more controlled method of requesting this feedback.
The ballot issue was a generic "non-design" advisory vote. The results prompted City Council to proceed with plans to replace the more than 40-year-old log cabin with a larger building.
The Ad-hoc Committee was reformed to continue with the preliminary design phase of the project, and to start marketing and fundraising efforts. |
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Occupancy Rates of Log Cabin vs. Heritage House |
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Friday, 08 August 2008 21:53 |
From 60 to 82 People
The current Log Cabin is rated to hold 60 people, per the Chardon Fire Department. Hank Penttila, the Chardon Heritage House architect, has used standard building code rates to determine the capacity of the Heritage House. (Based on these calculations, the existing Log Cabin should be rated for 58.)
The Heritage House, based on standard building code occupancy rates, is expected to be rated to hold 82 people. The two meeting rooms will hold up to a total of 72 people, which is close to the 25% increase that we requested. The smaller meeting room will hold 25 people, while the larger meeting room will hold 47 people. Two meetings can be held at the same time, or the sliding partition can be opened for a large meeting. Each room has an entrance into the lobby. |
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 16:16 |
After listening to the feedback from the community, the Heritage Committee agreed to adopt a more traditional "timber frame" look. Hank Penttila, from Penttila Architects, met with a couple timber framers, including Scott Carlson from Geauga County. His new design incorporated the thoughts of the timber framers, adding more elaborate framing elements and vertical wood siding. The new design will highlight elements that are very common in Geauga County barns, sugar houses, and century homes.
The design of the new building's windows have been modified. Instead of large glass windows that would enable people to look out onto the square, several double hung windows will be used. Inside visitors will still be able to easily view the park, but the exterior look will be more traditional. A large glass wall will be placed between the meeting room and an adjacent sugarhouse room equipped with an evaporator used to make maple syrup. The two types of windows will allow people outside the building to view sugar-making being done inside the structure.
The floor plan remained unchanged, other than enlarging the restrooms and reducing the lobby size to accomplish that. The restrooms needed to be enlarged to meet building codes. |
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 16:22 |
The following image displays the additional timber frame elements of the more traditional design. Also notice the verticle board siding and the traditional double-hung windows. The stone foundation wall was raised along the north west side, and matches that of the rest of the building. This will protect the windows from snow plow damage during the winter.
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 16:43 |
The view of the Heritage House from the west shows the two diagonal walls with traditional double-hung windows. These walls will allow visitors in the large meeting room to have a nice diagonal view of the park, maximizing their view of green space.
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 16:49 |
The southern side of the Heritage House provides entry to the storage area and the evaporator room. It also provides windows to view the sugar making process. A covered porch is included for storage of sap and fuel during maple sugar production, or park benches other times of year.
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