Spaceport america

Spaceport America D0114947, senior, Sophia Appointment: 2006 Completion: 2014 Area: 10,219m² Client: New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) Tenant: Virgin Galactic Collaborating Architect: SMPC Architects Structural Engineer: URS Corporation Quantity Surveyor: Balis and Company M+E Engineer: URS Corporation, PHA Consult/Foster + Partners Additional Consultants: Project Management: URS Corporation Space Architecture Consultants: XArc Exploration Architecture Corporation, Synthesis International Architect Foster + Partners is a British international studio for architecture and integrated design, with headquarters in London. They have a wide range of work, from urban masterplans, public infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural buildings, offices and workplaces to private houses and product design. Many projects combine Arts and Crafts building and industrial machines and are used to use glass and steel building. To bring people back to that, with the wind, and the sun, the air, water, and all things in harmony era by high-tech architecture, they consider many natural factors to be the zeitgeist.

Concept In American Southwest, because of dried hot air from Mexico, resulting unbearable hot weather, sunny and humidity is low, and ardent, and dry weather what is a typical desert climate, In addition to the temperature difference between day and night, as well as difficulty in obtaining water, the energy is very precious, but the wind and solar energy sources are here. The reason can be selected in the wind and sun to do sustainable development.

The floor area is 10,219 m2, hoped to be an airport of the future,

Built in 2006, completed in 2014. Southeast winds blow in the summer, and westerly winds blow in winter from the ocean currents.

In order to avoid hot air from Mexico, how to

make the introduction of wind in the building is the first consideration, because of wind direction and the space of the essential air handling system, the vents are put up at the opposite side with the runway.

Building The task is meant to advance the same natural harmonies. The shell is curved along the surface and rises up gradually that can be regarded a landscape in the area of a lot. It has two storeys and a high ceiling inside. It is worth remarking that the recording history of the region and its settlers are on the retaining walls, when people walk into the building via a deep channel cut into the landscape like that they dip in the desert, forming an exhibition space implied some kind of meaning.

The western boundary of the building is a glazed wall, and its performance space is a visitor's gallery and astronaut's quarters.

And then the eastern side is administrative facilities with a

glazed faรงade reserved where has a good view onto the rails.

The location of this base

belongs to the low-density development areas that it can organize into great ingenuity for spatial efficiency, unlike other airports to be usually set up in a highly developed area which needing to design restraint, and air base itself is very unlike.

Therefore, the concept forms

an internal space, coordinating the idea that client decides to build the airport, for capturing the drama and mystery of space flight itself, and makes a minimal impact on the environment.

Connection It uses local materials and regional construction techniques for reducing the cost of shipping cost and complying with the local climate and environment. The building has become a local green architecture. A build-in skin should responsible for regulating the external environment and interface features indoor climate differences, for the reason that, the design of the skin is very important. The top is composed of the big shell a reinforced structure, reducing the burden on the quality of structural column, and it can obscure the strong sunlight. The choice of exterior colors is similar to the desired color, being harmonious.

In terms of sustainable development, it uses thermal energy cycles of comfortably temperature.

strategy Along the strong linear axis forms a galleried series with a central circular space, it is connected to the promenade around the horizon. The large space of Fan-shaped is like a alive architecture. This is the building appearance concept for solving the problem of New Mexico climate.

First, at the west side, it is devised many continuous spaces which can provide similar as cold air-conditioner manufacturing system operation, and pass the rooms to reach the main space. Let people who are in the main space feel comfortable temperature. And then the air will be discharged from the top of the outlet with a big blower.

Construction system: Temperature : Desert air conditioner is designed with its chief advantage is the ability to achieve water evaporation air handling multiple processes. In the dry, dusty and high-temperature conditions, it can achieve humidification, dust and cooling, the water evaporation in the cooling air conditioner consumes very little energy, and reduces cooling power dust and increases humidity in the wintertime.

Air conditioning : Due to the plane of the heat, the indoor airport causes the temperature rising up. It needs a method to cool, like the introduction of cold air.

After indoor temperature is to be hot, hot air will rise and be discharged. In addition, there is a slender space to release hot air from the base ground. It will achieve the minimum impact from the outside temperature.

Combined with air principle - hot air rising and cold air, dropping the small window position is to achieve the purpose of saving energy and reducing carbon, keeping indoor temperature. The solution is that the windows install on the eastern side, efforts to reduce the chances of hot air into the interior, increasing the cold air.

Sunlight : Because of this strong base of sunlight, at the top of many small windows which shape are broken up by three-dimensional curved, direct light, make it to be the soft light before entering the room, and also to achieve the visual effect of light. So as to control the amount of sunshine into the room, reducing and keeping indoor temperature, even the top of middle has placed solar panels, creating a cycle energy source.

Finally, it sets up visors at the window to cover the light.

Especially, at the building bottom provides radiant cooling a meeting at underfloor. It tries to solve the problem for the temperature of the stratum and the floor.

On the other hand, the introduction of sunshine can instead let what lead to increase carbon emissions, if they can often use natural light, it will be able to reduce carbon emissions and hopes to reach a minimum intervention in the surrounding environment.

Conclusion In addition to the wind and the light, it includes a control other energy demand, with minimal carbon emissions and few additional energy requirements. The low-lying can buffer uncomfortable, and let a good introduction of the west wind, which the effect caused by extreme weather enter the building to be vented. The project is not only a tourist airport, but also as a space open to public use. No matter what architecture and sustainable using, they are both closely integrated, showing elegance and practicality. Foster + Partners architect devotes to creating buildings that are environmentally sustainable and uplifting to use, be proud of getting the world's first private spaceport, and it gets Wallpaper Design Awards, Best Building Sites.

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