Taking as precedent the formal/spatial model found in early twentieth century airship hangars and their relationship to the objects they housed, this project imagines nearly the same thing with just one difference: instead of the airship we consider the Airstream. From there, the design problem is that of a ‘hangar’ for an Airstream trailer, one that would prioritize in both form and function the life of the object within. Mostly we design buildings for human life, so occasionally it makes sense to see them from a less personal perspective.
The foundation is deep in the middle to provide access to the underside of the parked airstreams. The truss structure, of varying thickness throughout its length, reconciles the curved geometry of the airstreams in its inside with an outer rectilinear structure dictated by the control points of the geometry. The structure produced consists of two shells in contact with the trusses, with the interior shell echoing the airstream’s curved metallic surface and the exterior shell as an expression of its parametric guidelines.
Group project in collaboration with Lauren Mendoza, Jackie Lewis, and Mathew Go.
This project was developed as part of Tech Lab II at UCLA, under Professor Jason Payne.
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