"Presented every other year, Preservation Texas Honor Awards recognize outstanding efforts to restore, preserve, rehabilitate, or reconstruct historic places that have been individually included on Preservation Texas' Most Endangered Places list or relate to a previous statewide thematic endangered listing. Before the restoration, the Bellville Turnverein was underutilized, in large part due to a lack of air conditioning.
This project required a creative approach to introducing air conditioning into a previously unconditioned historic wood building in a manner that did not visually impact the character-defining interior space, particularly the exposed wood roof structure. This obstacle was overcome by placing HVAC Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) units and ducting in the crawlspace below the floor. Conditioned air is distributed up into the dance area through supply air units located underneath the perimeter dance floor benches. The return air path was created by installing custom wood grilles at the front of the stage and utilizing open balloon wall framing between the original windows and doors."
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