Lancaster City Housing Authority
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
A new two-story 10,000SF building to house administrative offices, board meeting room, Section 8 caseworkers and maintenance inventory. Space vacated by these functions in the Church Street Towers building is reclaimed for residential housing units. Located in the Lancaster Historic District, site and city-planning concerns were paramount. The new building, while contemporary in design, borrows shapes, scale and facade rhythms from the adjacent historic neighborhood.
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Lititz Municipal Offices and Police Department
Lititz, Pennsylvania
This landlocked municipal building, located along the main street in the historic borough of Lititz, was faced with a growing population for which expansion of the necessary associated public services was required.
The neighboring Victorian row house was purchased by the Borough and then demolished and infill construction with matching floor heights was erected.
The new addition was designed using the guidelines from the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation for infill construction in a historic district.
The four-foot wide pedestrian walkway that separated the existing borough building from the row house is now the new corridor in the police department.
The requirement for a larger public meeting room was addressed by changing the orientation of the room to take advantage of the new width of the combined existing building and the addition. In order to accomplish this, a section of the exterior bearing wall was removed.
