Steel Office Building for Hodgdon Powder Company
El dorado Architects took the SteelMaster Quonset hut to a new level with the Hodgdon Powder Company office facilities in rural Kansas.
Josh Shelton from El dorado proposed the use of SteelMaster’s Quonset hut system, which is a pre-engineered structure to Hodgdon principals after seeing similar building examples for nearby airplane hangars and rural agricultural buildings. “The Quonset hut is already such a beautiful section of corrugated ribs, so we did not want to mess with this elegant system,” Shelton stated to Architectural Record magazine. “We created a compound of sorts that brought indoor and outdoor spaces together, peeling away a series of spanning ribs to create an overhead canopy.” Coincidentally, the project ended up looking like a double-barreled shotgun in the plans.
El dorado collaborated with SteelMaster Buildings to work out the size, spans and details of the Quonset hut buildings. The complex consists of a reception area, meeting room, open office, kitchen and dining area, locker room, laundry room, smoking area and garden. The project was featured in the February 2008 edition of Architectural Record.
The steel buildings were designed by El dorado, supplied by SteelMaster Buildings and constructed by Kelley Construction.
Photos: Mike Sinclair
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