Architecture Fortaleza Hall in Wisconsin by H. F. Johnson Jr
May 13th, 2010 - Posted in Architecture
Built on the campus of Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin and designed by architectural firm Foster and Partners, the project also involves construction of Public Buildings, with various facilities including staff restaurants, shops and gymnasium.Pada 1935, HF Johnson Jr. 15 000 miles a flight from Wisconsin to Brazil, to find a sustainable source of natural wax – carnauba palm tree. Sixty-three years after his father made a flight in a Sikorsky-38 amphibious aircraft, the child re-HF Johnson Jr., the original flight in a replica aircraft.
The legacy of this incredible journey has been commemorated in the opening of Fortaleza Hall, the new space provides a permanent home for historic regales replica aircraft and aviation stories for visitors and people passing by.
Located adjacent to the campus of Wright’s Johnson Wax”’office building and research tower, fully transparent Fortaleza Hall allows the aircraft to be displayed for the students and the general public at all times. Clear contrast with the façade of the building of solid and its surroundings on the campus of Wright internalized, while the oval shape allows easy access with 360-degree view plane replica. A mural depicting carvings Carnauba rain forest and wood mosaic forms the basic foundation, beneath the aircraft delayed.
The second building in this project, Building Society, has been designed to provide visual imagery that is more solid-to campus. Kasota stone walls of this rectangular structure of brick echoes Wright’s headquarters, while the nearest façade of the Hall of Fortaleza is concave, ‘to embrace the form of’ building a new partner built. The buildings are connected by a glass atrium entrance, contains the green wall, water walls and reflecting pools. undercroft A tunnel connecting the space to the matrix that forms the main communication network through the campus.
