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Show "" "V " ' .... " j! i -J L i ' I i " i r ir. i ,,,r r. i, n it m, ,f t ini i ' I llllll - - - ' " - - Architects Make Cedar Hills Recreation Center Presentations by Harlow Clark After voting September 7 to move ahead with plans for a community center at the golf course, Cedar Hills' City Council Coun-cil heard presentations from Curtis Miner Architecture and Ken Harris Architect on September Sep-tember 2 1 . Curtis Miner, 11 years in business, talked about three buildings, each designed to highlight a particular context. The private LDS-based American Heritage school in American Fork has a hall of windows to focus people's attention at-tention on the LDS temple across the street as they moved through the building during the day. The design also is reminiscent reminis-cent of architecture the founding found-ing fathers would have seen. The Traverse Mountain Sales Center, meant to act as a "community and recreation center" cen-ter" after the development is sold out, was also designed to show off its context, with one room having a 180 degree view of the valley, the view being the selling point. The Mapleton City building build-ing has a glass wall at the back of the council chambers that frames Maple Mountain. . Miner talked about the purposes pur-poses of the building, not just a clubhouse, but a community events center able to accommodate accommo-date several groups at once, and the building would emphasize the spectacular view. He talked briefly about the bid, design-build process where typically, the client hires the general contractor who hires the architect which "severs the direct connection which you as the building owner have with the architect." That can cause problems if the general contractor contrac-tor is driven by price and willing will-ing to compromise design quality qual-ity for price, Miner said. An alternative is for the city to hire an architect who hires a construction managergeneral contractor who works as an adviser during building design, then typically becomes the general gen-eral contractor after design is over. To preserve competitive bidding, the city could require open bidding for the subcontractors subcon-tractors . This alternative could save one to two months, Miner said, important for a building slated to be finished by next May. Council Member Marisa Wright asked what size of a building the city could expect for $2 million. Miner said that based on historical data, he thought it would be 12,500 to 13,800 square feet. Bruce McKay, filling in for Ken Harris who was out of the country, emphasized the company's com-pany's 30 years of experience and personal touch "as one of the little guys." "We have worked on a previous club house to completion," comple-tion," he said about earlier work with Cedar Hills. He discussed the view and the landscaping and how to make good use of the present building, with additions, and referred to some preliminary sketches. He added that their . staff had remodeled many of the clubhouses in Salt Lake County and some in California. Wright said she loved their buildings, including the Jamestown James-town development in Provo, though she had never really liked the design of the present clubhouse. "Would there be significant savings in using the current building as opposed to starting over?" it was asked. He said that depends on how much they like the interior space that's there now. It would be fairly easy to change the outside out-side of the building. Wright asked about the costs of drawing up new elevations eleva-tions and construction drawings and McKay said he could put together figures but hadn't come prepared with them because he was told he wouldn't be discussing dis-cussing costs. Typically, architectural drawings run about three percent per-cent of construction costs, he said, but he thought they would be considerably less than that". When asked about the current cur-rent size, he said it was around - 8,000 square feet. |
