The design is a work of detail, millimetre, pertinence and material.
This project was about observing the interactions among the different practices such as: power generators mechanics, encryption and secret code experts, truck drivers, the people in charge of the radars and many others.
The organisation of the different flows took an important part in the conceiving of the military base.
A North-South “ceremonial” axes is dedicated to pedestrians, whereas the East-West logistic axes, represented by roads surrounding the workshops, allows a separation of the truck and semi-trailer circulation. To complete this scheme, the design of the landscape creates a connection axes exclusively dedicated to pedestrians and cyclers: a buffer zone between the logistic “ensemble” and the residential area.
In order to gather different services in the 105 Air Base, the project was designed to create a unique place which shares competences and develops the synergies of the “Tactical Squadron”. We designed a building that could be completely opened to the exterior with multitasking boxes suitable for any activity.
The Air Base is mainly composed by two different types of building representing different uses: one for the logistic and vehicles and the other one for the offices.
The “efficiency” of the process was the starting point in designing the logistic building. Our analysis of the programme as an industrial process proposes sequences and associations of different activities put together, thus optimizing the flows. In fact, the layout plan is based on the separation between the different circulation flows and on the relations within the processes.
These processes took the form of an industrial hall (52-metre-wide and 800-metre-long) able to develop the interactions and the assembly-line-like successions of the different flows. The hall can respond to new needs, even specific activities that are in a continuous evolution.
The compactness of the assembly of different functions led to an environmental economy, with a global and transversal approach (architectural, bioclimatic, technical and economical).
The built volumes are dressed such as a “camouflage” of wood and cladding in green tones, establishing a dialogue between them-selves and the surrounding where vehicle and human scale are united.
