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Nantucket commissioners push architects to scale down eaves, roof pitches on proposed Island Home nursing facility
Summary
Architects for the Our Island Home replacement and adjacent Sherburne Commons staff housing presented design revisions and material choices. Commissioners praised elements of the energy plan but asked for smaller eave proportions, different window proportions and clearer mockups of siding and color.
Architects and the design team for the town’s Our Island Home replacement presented detailed renderings and material samples at the Nantucket Historic District Commission meeting on Jan. 21, seeking design guidance as the project moves toward bids and approvals ahead of a town-meeting vote in May.
The proposal would replace the existing Island Home nursing facility with a single-story, H-shaped building with 45 private resident rooms, two internal courtyards and a separate, three-unit Sherburne Commons staff housing building. The design team—led by Craig Piper of SMRT and project architect Mark Rogers—told commissioners the facility is being designed to passive-house principles, will include inward-facing photovoltaic arrays and place all major mechanical equipment above a mechanical attic to avoid roof-mounted equipment visible at resident level.
Commissioners said the team had resolved many earlier concerns but still must address how the building’s proportions read from the…
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