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The quickly growing company of Latvia Air Traffic plans to build a new Air Traffic Control tower and integrated development of the territory.
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The goal of the project is to replace the old tower with a technologically more advanced structure to facilitate future developments. The new building incorporates technical, administrative and office areas.
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The underlying principle of the proposed building is to respect and continue the existing volume both in the horizontal and vertical dimensions.
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The new volume adheres to the established orthogonal system of the surrounding built environment.
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The administrative block is the same height as the existing volume and continues vertically as the tower retaining the same proportion.
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The top floor of the tower is rotated around the roof axis, looking over the middle point of the apron.
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The facade aluminium panel system is devised using a paper plane as visual inspiration. The varying degrees of openness ensure differentiated insolation. Source by NRJA.
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- Location: Riga, Latvia
- Architect: NRJA
- Collaboration: Chris White from CPMG Architects
- Status: Second place in international competition
- Year: 2018
- Images: Courtesy of NRJA
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