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Port Orchard council reviews Community Event Center design; council favors glass canopy, nano walls and nautical playground sculpture
Summary
Architects from Rice Fergus Miller presented final design refinements for the Community Event Center and waterfront plaza at the Oct. 28 council meeting; council favored nano walls to open ballrooms to the deck, a converted flexible meeting room, storage for banquet furniture, a nautical climbing sculpture for children, and a glass canopy option for a smaller covered stage.
Rice Fergus Miller architect Dean Kelly presented refined designs for the Port Orchard Community Event Center and adjacent waterfront plaza at the Oct. 28 council meeting, seeking council feedback on several late-stage elements including second-floor restrooms, folding "nano" wall systems, a converted meeting room, and plaza furnishings.
Restrooms and circulation The design team proposed gender-specific men's and women's rooms on the second floor with full-height stall privacy and a shared basin area separated by a screening wall. "We've added a wall separating the men's and the women's area, where you have kind of the hand-wash basins and things like that," Dean Kelly said, showing renderings and a rope-screen material used as a unifying design element between levels. Council members asked about privacy for handwashing and engineering progress; Kelly said the project is in late-stage construction documents (roughly 70% complete)…
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