Aircraft Hangar, Pafos Airport, 2004 and 2012

For his international transport needs, our client frequently pilots his own jet plane in and out of Cyprus. With temperatures in summer reaching as high as 50A?C, out of the shade, it was necessary to build a hangar to accommodate and protect the plane as well as provide a workshop with maintenance facilities. In order to minimise the volume of the building we designed a wide wedge-like structure to accommodate the 10m tail wing near the door, and the 25m wing span across its width. A built-in management system makes sure that the air is filtered, conditioned and dust-free. The steel structure and cladding was deliberately kept simple in order to cut costs and to facilitate a simple manufacturing and construction by the local industry on the island.