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Stevens Point Municipal Airport Hanger
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The Stevens Point Airport Hangar was jointly designed by William Yudchitz, Revelations Architects/Builders Corporation and Louis Wasserman, Louis Wasserman & Associates. Revelations was the architect of record providing all the client contact, programming, and supervising the preparation of construction documents and all on-site construction.
Owners Program:
The City of Stevens Point and the Wisconsin Department of Aviation called for 10,000sf of tenant hangar space for the Stevens Point Municipal Airport. A specific range of airplane models with particular clearances was to be accommodated adjacent to the existing terminal and runways. User/owner requirements dictated life cycle and maintenance economies.
Site Description including any significant physical parameters
Established long range planning parameters and existing infrastructure dictated location and siting of design solution. Adjacent and ongoing pollution remediation efforts were accommodated during the construction process.
Design Solution
Long span trusses were employed to provide the essential column free hangar space and accommodate the huge hangar bifold door needed. A simple shed roof was used to redirect rainwater away from runway and to a rain garden.
For lifecycle costing and long-range sustainable savings an extensive palette of energy saving strategies were successfully utilized to provide long range sustainability.
- Geothermal fields provide the principal heat and cooling for this project.
- Radiant heat in the floor slab delivers ideal and unobstructed comfort for airplane storage and maintenance.
- A transpired wall captures and recirculates heat in the winter and cool air in the summer.
- A (cool) white roof reduces summer energy costs and extends life.
- Integrated sensor activated HVAC modulator maximizes capture of transpired air, blends with required new makeup air and recaptured internal air to provide a sustainable and economical solution within code parameters.
- The Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation has invested in this project with a Focus on Energy demonstration grant to be used to educate the public on the effective sustainable strategies demonstrated here.
What is significant about this project?
A standard kit of metal building parts was designed and assembled in a way that is distinctive and different from the ordinary airplane hangar yet within the standard metal box budget.
Within this machine aesthetic envelope is a design solution that employs and integrates many different sustainable strategies that stands as a unique demonstration project in Wisconsin.
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