Airship Hangers at Orly Airport

Outline
It is a large-space architecture consisting of 40 huge parabolic concrete arches with a span of 80 m and a height of 56 m. The total length of the building is 300 m. Each arch is a folded plate structure. Each arch is a folded plate structure. The upper half of the arches were cast in-situ using movable formwork, and were destroyed in 1944 due to the war.
Location
  • France
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Shinkenchiku 2025:08
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1920s
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