This project began after ordering from a customer who wanted to build a hangar to house aircraft and related machines.
The chosen place was the land where his country house is located, with a large area and strong relationship with nature. It is easily accessible by road BR-101.
Two large lakes organize the internal ways of the area. At one side is located the existing house and, on the other side the new construction.
The hangar was installed in the northern portion of the terrain, on a free plateau surrounded by mountains and abundant vegetation in the background.
The complete program consisted of a shed to store the aircraft and a support and maintenance workshop, plus workspaces and apartments for the pilots.
Two premises guided the project: the reuse of the structure of a pre-cast shed that had been dismantled and the use of concrete blocks, which would be produced by the customer.
The structure of the pre-cast shed measures 17m x 28.55m, with a total area of 480 m2. A volume with three levels was proposed to be attached to the existing structure.
On the ground floor, there are a hangar maintenance shop, toilets and a double stud. On the second level there is an office with a balcony that leads into the shed and a glass panel that frames the landscape. On the third and last level there is a meeting room with a large table and two pilot flats, which allows independent access through an existing circular staircase at the back of the building.
The main materials used in this work were: reused pre-cast structure, concrete ceilings, concrete blocks, PVC frames, black granite, lattice panel slab and iron.
A container door, painted in black and yellow, was used for access to the reception in order to reinforce the industrial character of the building.
On the outside, the pre-cast structure was painted black, which frames the blocks in reddish concrete. Internally, all materials were painted white, providing the environment with amplitude, cleanliness and homogeneity characteristics.
In the construction of the block annexed to the shed, concrete blocks were used, in two different sizes and different finishing. The larger reddish 15 centimeters wide block was used to close the shed and for most of the internal and external walls. Gray colored 10 centimeters wide blocks were used on some internal walls and at the junction between the windows on the south façade.
All the structural work, both the building hardware and concrete, as well as hydraulic and electrical piping were passed through the concrete blocks. For rainwater runoff, for example, were used 75 mm diameter pipes, which descend vertically inside the blocks.
This is a project that explores industrial design. It is a work that clearly exposes its constructive technology, by reusing pre-fabricated elements already used in other works and that uses the concrete block as the main element in the construction, sometimes as a structure, or simply as a closure.
