Aviation Pavilion at The Museum of Flight / SRG Partnership

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Text description provided by the architects. The Museum of Flight’s Aviation Pavilion is a 135,000 square foot roof supported by steel columns and brace frames with a twelve-inch concrete paving slab.  It houses twenty aircraft for augmented protection from the elements and patron access.  Exhibited planes include the iconic Boeing 747 and 787 prototypes, Air Force One, Concorde, and other historic military and commercial aircraft.  The building is a parallelogram approximately 460 feet wide, 315 feet deep and between 55 and 87 feet tall.  It connects the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery and the Raisbeck Aviation High School on the Museum’s west campus.  Six rows of skylights distribute even natural light and prevent glare and silhouetting in the open-air facility.  Design supports the future enclosure of the structure with leaning glazing at East Marginal Way South and visual access from the High School.