Below the pad will be six base isolators to protect the vessel from a seismic event. The shuttle, complete with its original rocket boosters, will sit atop a concrete pad in the middle of the gallery. In the end, the solution was to put it up and then build a temporary building around it to protect it.” “Do you put the shuttle up and build the building around it and risk something falling on it and destroying it, or do you build a building with a hole in it and figure out how to sling the shuttle into the building after it was done. The biggest challenge his team faced was designing a building for a priceless piece of artwork like the shuttle, Hyman explains. “The idea is to make it feel like you are standing out there on the launch pad seeing the shuttle in the dark, ready for takeoff.” Hyman says visitors will enter the shuttle display from the third floor and see the ship completely vertical in the launch position, with the curved-shaped building “essentially evaporating” behind it. The main part of the building will be three stories, with the shuttle gallery rising six stories, topping out at 200 ft to allow for the height of the vertical Endeavour. “The design will give a nod to the shuttle and the technology used to build it,” says Ted Hyman, managing partner with ZGF. Evidence Design is in charge of exhibit design. The project was designed by ZGF Architects, with Arup serving as structural engineer and MATT Construction leading construction.
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