2nd Year Architecture Studio
Structure-Driven Design: Ithaca Aviation Museum / Spring 2017
Type/
Individual Design Project, Pavilion
Site/
Ithaca, NY
Instructor/
Rychiee Espinosa
The project is inspired by a field trip to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, a transportation museum in Hammondsport, upper state New York. The 60,000 square foot facility is well-known for its collection of aircraft, vintage motorcycles, automobiles, and aircraft engines. Referencing this featured collection, this foundation studio project proposes an exhibition venue for
aircraft, as well as a local landmark in Ithaca.
Considering the spatial and structural requirements for exhibiting aircraft, and ADA code, this structure-driven design process involves intensive feasibility study, including structural models in various scales, and construction drawings. The building form’s response to its immediate site condition and the farmers market across the river is also scrutinized. How to dissolve the aloofness of modernism museum when it’s settled in a suburban community?
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Concept Diagram
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Plan Variation Study
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Structure System
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Aerial View
Interior Render
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