This was my final required studio class for my undergraduate career, and the project for the semester was to design an. Aircraft Instruction and Maintenance Facility near Willard Airport. Basically, it consisted of an airplane hangar, workshops, classrooms, and office spaces.
The site we were given is really big, basically about the size of 2 football fields, and way more space than needed. My overall concept was then to bunch everything together on one side of the site and organize the rooms around the aircraft hangar. That way, everyone would be able to see what went on in an aircraft hangar on a day to day basis, and I thought it would encourage a more practical and hands on learning process for the students who would be in close proximity to the workshops and classrooms. Because everything was so clustered together, I had a lot of the site left over to convert to a native prairie.
The first image kind of shows how the building is organized, and where each piece fits together diagrammatically.
The second picture is a view of the what the entrance might look like. The reasoning behind the color had to do with pulling the colors from the materials and the prairie and using them as a sort of gradient out to the landscape.
In the third picture, you can see what the interior of the hangar looks like as a student walking to a classroom on the left.
The final two pictures are of the scale model.
Hopefully you guys enjoy seeing this!
