Hangar-8: Not your average maintenance facility

As a functional compliment to Hangar-7, a further highly unusual hangar for restoration and maintenance of the airplanes belonging to the Flying Bulls was put up very close by: Hangar-8 is directly across from Hangar-7, and it fulfills the function of a maintenance facility. Ground was broken for Hangar-8 in early May 2002. The building was officially inspected by December 2003. In early 2004, all maintenance activities of the Flying Bulls were moved to Hangar-8 from Hangar 9, which stands on a property adjoining Salzburg Airport and had served as a temporary facility.

In terms of working conditions and technical installations, Hangar-8 exceeds all the usual international standards, and that?s no surprise: airplanes such as those flown by the Flying Bulls demand extensive, highly professional attention.

Despite the more humdrum requirements of a maintenance hangar, Hangar-8 is architecturally sophisticated in its own right: after all, it has to fit into the overall ensemble, and the determining stylistic factor here is Hangar-7: the steel construction of Hangar-8 consists in a triangular, netted supporting structure including around 1,650 glass plates. Here as well, we see a striking interplay of steel and glass, and the resulting impression of lightness.

Specifications Hangar-8:

Property Size:

5.790 m2

Area built on:

2.830 m2

Ground area of hangar:

2.100 m2

Gross total volume:

26.700 m3

Weight of glass:

240 to

Steel structure:

230 to

Glass shell (developed area):

3.600 m2

Max. unsupported span:

58 x 63 m

Crown height:

12,5 m