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Working at Prellwitz Chilinski Associates I was part of a team of three that worked with the town of Weston to rehabilitate an under utilized and poorly conditioned piece of town history. The Josiah Smith Tavern was original built in 1756 and served as a home and Tavern. The structure was comprised of a house and downstairs tavern as well as a ballroom for larger functions upstairs. The main building was connected to a barn with a ‘connector piece’. The house and Tavern portion has recently housed the town’s collection of historic artifacts. As it stood the space was unconditioned and less than ideal for the storage and display of such artifacts. The connector piece as well as the barn were conditioned spaces that had been leased by the town’s women’s guild, who held events and a weekly consignment shop. The task given to PCA was to rehabilitate the existing building as well as prepare the building to become a tavern and restaurant once again. The historic artifacts and the women’s guild were to be moved next door to the old town library which was also a PCA project done in collaboration with the Josiah Smith Tavern project. For the old tavern to become a modern restaurant it was necessary for PCA to design an addition to house a kitchen. This addition was designed to mimic the existing architecture as well to have a “zipper” between the two structures in order to allow for the restoration of the building to it’s original form if the building function were to change in the future. Working with a project manager I created the entire set of construction documents in Autodesk’s Revit software which allowed us to better investigate and understand the relationship between the addition and the existing structure.