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Show f 7 ; 1 : t ... .. . ... . -v; T i 1 ';:.: ' '''; ' F'"'-1, ' ,i : r j ( ; : .rr-r -" 1, -i s-i -. a , r iLJt-j t r - - 1 . ... - , , i;-u-lAJ, . i . . :,. l Architect Presents Preliminary Concepts for Cedar Hills Community Events Center by Harlow Clark CMA Architects have received re-ceived the go ahead for Cedar Hills' community events center cen-ter at the golf course. Curtis Cur-tis Miner and Jay Taggart, principle architects for the project, presented six preliminary pre-liminary concepts to the city council October 5, and discussed dis-cussed several guiding principles, prin-ciples, including the building as community icon. "This will be a prominent promi-nent building in Cedar Hills," Miner said, "able to be seen everywhere, something to identify with the city." Miner also talked a lot about the idea of gather and spread. "The property that we're working with is an alluvial fan," Miner said. "It sits at the mouth of American Fork canyon. It's actually where water has come down the canyon for many many years, collected sediment and then distributed it in a fan shape, and that's actually what creates cre-ates this knoll that the building build-ing will sit on." The designs all involved some curves, but the one that captured the council's attention, atten-tion, Scheme B, starts with a low-ceilinged foyer on the east and fans out and up as it heads to the west. The foyer is meant to capture the residential feel of the nearby neighborhood, and the curving curv-ing fan expands out like the canyon and mountains and captures 180 degree view of the valley, "an explosion of space," Taggart said. The foyer also works to gather people and spread them out to the different parts of the building, like the clubhouse, club-house, reception center, grill or cafe, whatever functions are designed for the build ing, such as a bridal room connected with the women's restroom, Council Member Stephanie Martinez's suggestion. sugges-tion. Council Member Marisa Wright mentioned the modern mod-ern architecture feel of the drawings and said, "I'm one in five, but I was hoping it could complement all its contexts and still remain formal." for-mal." "I'm impressed with the building," council member Ken Kirk said, "especially the transition from residential residen-tial to non-residential feel as it moves east to west." Council Member Jim Perry said Scheme B reminded remind-ed him a little of the Sydney, Australia opera house. When Miner and Taggart were setting up the easels for the drawings, Perry suggested suggest-ed making more room and some people moved the po dium out into the hall. Perry invited a visiting Boy Scout troop to come closer. "We I want to make sure the Scouts can see something. They have to endure their time here," he said. When the troop's hour was up, one of their leaders . asked if anyone had thought about things like green certi- j fication and passive solar el- j ements. Perry said the design hadn't gotten that far yet. j Miner and Taggart said ' they would e-mail copies j of the drawings for council j members to study so they j could debate and decide j which they liked best, but at ! the end of the meeting Kirk raised the question of timeline, time-line, since the city wants the building ready by next May ! for the 2011 golf season. j After a short discussion j the council voted to move j forward with Scheme B. j |