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1 Calendar Description Based on the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places In Canada (2010), the class examines building technology issues germane to three different conservation interventions: preservation, restoration and rehabilitation. The class focus is on the appropriate use of details, building materials and system integration of heritage buildings. Additional Description The course introduces the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada (2010) focusing on heritage value, character defining elements and the conservation interventions of restoration, preservation and rehabilitation. Restoration and preservation are explained in terms of first documenting and then creating a set of plans and specifications for a true divided light window. Rehabilitation is explained via an adaptive reuse design project. This term, the project is about the Halifax Public Library, Spring Garden Road. Little Dutch Church, Brunswick Street Halifax Public Library, Spring Garden Road 1

2 Course Learning Objectives & Methodology an awareness of: 1) the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada (2010); 2) heritage value, character-defining elements and the three conservation interventions (Preservation, Rehabilitation and Restoration); 3) how to document an existing heritage artifact and then create a set of plans and specifications that can be used to either repair or replace the artifact in-kind. This term, the artifact is a true divided light window.; 4) how a true divided light window controls rain penetration and in turn, how these strategies can be related to overall building design; 5) rehabilitation friendly adaptive re-use design methods; 6) required changes to the four primary building systems (envelope, structure, mechanical and interior) as a result of an adaptive re-use. The course is lecture based and includes two field trips. The first trip will be to the Little Dutch Church, Halifax. The second trip will be to the Halifax Public Library, Spring Garden Road. Both sites are in walking distance of the school. You are asked to complete two assignments. The first is a documentation exercise that includes creating a set of plans and specifications. The second is an adaptive re-use design exercise. In both cases, the focus of the assignment is building technology. In the former case, the details and materials required to make a window. In the latter case, the changes to the four building systems (envelope, structure, mechanical and interior) that must be done to an existing building when its original use is changed. Schedule Thursday mornings 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM in HD4. Office hours are by prior arrangement. AP s office is HB9 in the Faculty office block. contact information for arranging a meeting or asking a question out of class: austin.parsons@dal.ca (c) 1 September 14 no class 2 September 21 Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada & Preserving & Restoring Character-Defining Elements: documenting, drawing and specifying a true divided light (TDL) window 3 September 28 no class (alternate time to be determined) field trip: Little Dutch Church 4 October 5 no class 5 October 12 assignment 1 penultimate review 6 October 19 assignment 1 due: a TDL set of drawings and specifications 7 October 26 Evolving Heritage Values 8 November 2 Rehabilitation & a Building s Character-Defining Elements: the authoritative discourse 9 November 9 fall break week 10 November 16 Changing the Game: adaptive re-use strategies and examples 11 November 23 field trip: Halifax Public Library 12 November 30 assignment 2 penultimate review 13 December 7 assignment 2 due: an adaptive re-use of the Halifax Public Library 2

3 Course Assignments assignment 1: a TDL set of drawings and specifications One of the Little Dutch Church s character defining elements is its windows. Create a set of 1:1 technical drawings and specification for one of the existing windows. The drawings and specification should be of a quality that a sash maker could use them to make a window. The assignment s deliverable is the above mentioned drawings and specification. Please complete one inside/ outside elevation, a horizontal section and a vertical section as part of the drawing package. The specification package is as per Division 8 Window requirements. On the due date, you will be expected to pin your work and be prepared to discuss your effort. Your work will be graded as if your drawings and specification was given to a sash maker to build a window. Please provide enough information so this is possible. assignment 2: an adaptive re-use of the Halifax Public Library Assume for the purposes of this assignment that the Halifax Public Library (main branch) is a heritage designated building. The decision has been made to re-purpose the building from a library to a residence/retail space. Complete a rehabilitation intervention of the building. Given the constraints of time, the assignment comes down to an iterative exercise between making choices about materials, details, systems and design based on the building s character defining elements (which you need to identify), an adherence to the Standards and Guidelines and a decision about selecting an appropriate part of the building which illustrates your ultimate re-design. Once you have decided on the above, complete a set of sections and plans that describes your proposed adaptive re-use. Put these drawings on a storyboard. The work will be graded based on your identification of the building s character defining elements, adherence to the Standards and Guidelines and how the selected section and plans highlighted your design decisions. 3

4 Course Evaluation Your grade will be based on the results of two assignments that are done individually as per the criteria outlined in the Assignment 1 & 2 Grading Rubric. Assignments 1 represents 40% of your grade. Assignment 2 the remaining 60%. Each assignment is due at the beginning of class on the assigned due date. Late work will be penalized 10% per weekday. AP will grade the work. letter grade numerical (%) equivalent A A A B B B F < 70 assignment 1& 2 Grading Rubric A The work exceeds expectations. It shows considerable command of critical and other secondary material. The work could be considered publishable in an academic journal. A The work constitutes excellent graduate work. It shows considerable command of critical and other secondary material. In theory, it could be published, but would need significant revision. A The work constitutes very good graduate level work. Both the drawings and writing is well done and throughly researched. The work offers a good understanding of the primary material and the scholarly discussion thereof. B The work may be considered good graduate work, but shows weaknesses in terms of research, argumentation or writing. B The work is satisfactory graduate work, but with substantial flaws in one or more areas of research, argumentation, drawing or writing. B The work is passable graduate work, showing considerable weaknesses or errors in research, argumentation, drawings and writing. F 0 Work is absent. 4

5 Course Reference Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada Ottawa: Government of Canada. (this document can be downloaded from this web link) Other International and National Organizations Charters, Standards and Guidelines UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization) ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) Charters United States U.S. Department of the Interior. National Park Service. Standards and Guidelines 1) Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada + Preserving & Restoring Character- Defining Elements: documenting, drawing and specifying a true divided light (TDL) window Documentation Adams, A The Camera. The New Ansel Adams Photography Series, Book 1. Boston: New York Graphic Society. APT Bulletin Special Issue on Documentation. Association for Preservation Technology International. 41(4). HABS guidelines Kidder, F.E Building Construction and Superintendence, (9th edition), parts 1 and 2. New York: Comstock Company. Morriss, R.K The Archaeology of Buildings. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing Inc. Secretary of the Interior s Standards and Guidelines for Architectural and Engineering Documentation: HABS/HAER Standards HABS/HAER Cultural Resources Program National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Restoration Cummings, A.L The Domestic Architecture of Boston, APT Bulletin 9(4). Association for Preservation Technology International (APT): Nara Document on Authenticity ICOMOS Null, J Restorers, Villains and Vandals. APT Bulletin 17(3/4). Association for Preservation Technology International (APT): (A restoration theory review (pro Ruskin point of view), Ruskin, Morris, Viollet-le-Duc, Wyatt, Scott plus a modern extension (expansion) of earlier theory.) Phillips, M The Philosophy of Total Preservation. APT Bulletin 3(1). Association for Preservation Technology International (APT): (The articulation of the restoration approach taken by The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.) Venice Charter (Charter of Venice) - International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites ICOMOS 5

6 Restoration: Windows The Charles Brooking Collection, Greenwich University, England The Brooking Collection is Britain s only comprehensive collection of architectural detail originating from buildings, domestic and commercial, ranging from castles and palaces or the grandest country house to the smallest artisan cottage. The Brooking Collection covers features extracted from buildings dating back five hundred years and some taken from 1960 icons. Leeke, J Save America s Windows. Practical Restoration Reports. Louw, H.J The Origin of the Sash Window. Architectural History (26): Louw, H.J., and R. Crayford A Constructional History of the Sash Window c.1670 c.1725 (Part 1). Architectural History (41): Louw, H.J., and R. Crayford A Constructional History of the Sash Window c.1670 c.1725 (Part 2). Architectural History (42): Meany, Terry Working Windows (3rd edition). Guildford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press. Myers, John H The Repair of Historic Wooden Windows. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior. National Park Service. Technical Preservation Services Heritage Window Restoration Websites The Charles Brooking Collection, Greenwich University, England The Brooking Collection is Britain s only comprehensive collection of architectural detail originating from buildings, domestic and commercial, ranging from castles and palaces or the grandest country house to the smallest artisan cottage. The Brooking Collection covers features extracted from buildings dating back five hundred years and some taken from 1960 icons. National Trust for Historic Preservation (USA) website for advise on how to repair heritage windows Window Preservation Standards Collaborative (WPSC) website 2) Evolving Heritage Values Carroon, J Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Jackson, Mike Embodied Energy and Historic Preservation: A Needed Reassessment. APT Bulletin 36(4). Association for Preservation Technology International (APT): Powter, A., and S. Ross Integrating Environmental and Cultural Sustainability for Heritage Properties. APT Bulletin 36(4). Association for Preservation Technology International (APT):

7 3) Rehabilitation & Character-Defining Elements: the authoritative discourse Smith, Laurajane The Uses of Heritage. New York, New York: Routledge 4) Changing the Game: adaptive re-use strategies and examples Brand, Stewart How Buildings Learn: What happens after they re built. New York: Viking Books. Vinas, Salvador Munoz Contemporary THeory of Conservation. New York, New York: Routledge General Technology References Addleson, Lyall, and Colin Rice Performance of Materials in Buildings. Oxford, England: Butterworth Heinemann. Brand, Ron Architectural Details for Insulated Buildings. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Cowan, Henry J Handbook of Architectural Technology. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Hutcheon, Neil B., and Gustav O.P. Handegord Building Science for a Cold Climate. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Kinzey, Bertram Y., and Howard M. Sharp Environmental Technologies in Architecture. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. WBDG (Whole Building Design Guideline). Historic Preservation Subcommittee Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Building Sciences. Preservation: Moisture and Dampness Massari, G., and I. Massari Damp Buildings, Old and New. APT Bulletin 17(1). Association for Preservation Technology International (APT): (Translation of two chapters of Massari and Massari s text on damp buildings.) Rose, W. B Moisture Control in the Modern Building Envelope: History of the Vapor Barrier in the US, APT Bulletin 28(4). Association for Preservation Technology International (APT): (A review of the early technical (and political) history of vapor barriers.) Rose, W.B Should the Walls of Historic Buildings be Insulated. APT Bulletin 36(4). Association for Preservation Technology International (APT):