Project Team

Architect Museum of Liverpool American Air Museum Redman Design Redman Design Hoskins Architects

Project Manager

Currie and Brown

Structural and Civil Engineer David Narro Associates

Mechanical and Electrical Engineer Dunfermline Museum & Art Gallery Max Fordham Redman Design

Cost Consultant Turner and Townsend

Principal Designer Gardiner and Theobold

Exhibition Designer Redman Design

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The Bridge Arts Centre Hoskins Architects, David Narro Associates, Max Fordham Project Objectives

The National Museum of Flight has seen extensive investment in Concorde recent years, starting with the arrival of Concorde in 2004 and including the creation of new exhibitions in 2009 and the restoration and redisplay of two original Second World War hangars in 2016.

This investment has been guided by a Masterplan for the Museum, developed by National Museums Scotland and Hoskins Architects in 2006. This consultation is about our proposals for the next stage of development for the Museum.

We are working with Hoskins Architects to design an entirely new hangar to be built on land right next to the Museum’s home at East Fortune Airfield.

This new building will help us achieve several critical ambitions for the collections, the site, the local community and economy.

It will:

1. Enable us to save historically important aircraft that are currently at risk of damage and loss through being displayed externally.

2. Reimagine the Second World War airfield, bringing its historic significance to life for visitors.

3. Help support creative community engagement and volunteering projects.

4. Enable the most significant collection of Jet Age commercial passenger material in the UK to be put on display for the first time and provide a permanent home for Scotland’s Concorde.

5. Create a Scotland-wide National Programme to develop skills and capacity in partners.

6. Drive additional employment opportunities and further stimulate the development of the tourism sector.

HANGAR 3 HANGAR 4 CIVIL AVIATION CONCORDE AND THE RED ARROW HAWK

HANGAR 2 MILITARY AVIATION

VULCAN

COMET

BAC 1-11

FORTUNES OF WAR

PROPOSED PROJECT HANGAR 1 SITE CONSERVATION WORKSHOP

FANTASTIC FLIGHT Site History

The National Museum of Flight is based at historic East Fortune Historic image of East Fortune Pilot School airfield, the best preserved Second World War airfield in the UK and a Scheduled Monument.

Initially established as an base and pilot training school, East Fortune went on to become a RAF station during the First and then Second World Wars. In 1961 the airfield even functioned for some months as Airport. The Museum officially opened to the public in July 1975.

The Museum and its collection continued to grow with Concorde arriving at East Fortune in 2004, the creation of new exhibitions in 2009, the restoration and redisplay of two original Second World War hangars in 2016, and the arrival of the Red Arrow Hawk T.1A in Historic image of Patrolmen erecting signage at East Fortune Aerodrome 2018.

Historic East Fortune Airfield Scheduled Monument

National Museum of Flight

Proposed Site Current Site Context

The proposed 2.51 Hectare site for the new building is located to Deterioration of Vickers Viscount in Hangar 1 the south of the historic East Fortune Airfield site and is surrounded by farmland to the south and east and woodland to the west.

The Museum’s collection and visitor facilities are housed within the existing buildings of the historic airfield. From large metal clad hangars to smaller brick ancillary aviation buildings, many have been successfully repurposed as museum spaces.

Hangar 1 is utilised as a Conservation workshop and is currently not open to the public. Hangars 2 and 3 house military and civil aviation aircraft and objects, with Hangar 4 at the most easterly point of the site, home to Concorde and the Red Arrow Hawk T.1A. Corroded Vickers Viscount engine Deterioration of Vulcan fuselage

One of the key drivers for the project is the urgent need to preserve some of the historic aircraft in the collection which are currently at risk of significant deterioration and complete loss. Located outdoors for many years due to a lack of indoor space, these aircraft continue to sustain corrosion despite extensive conservation treatments and management plans.

Images showing current level of deterioration of Vulcan and BAC 1-11

Concorde and Main Visitor Facilities Project Brief

The new building will provide a permanent home for Concorde Concorde and bring the BAC 1-11, Comet and Viscount inside, enabling conservation and providing an environment that will preserve the aircraft for future generations.

The new building will also be designed to improve visitor facilities by including the following:

• Welcome and reception/ticketing • Shop • Café • Toilets • Exhibition/Display (National Civil Aviation Collection)

• External car and coach parking

The new hangar building will enhance the sense of arrival at the Museum, providing a new main public entrance with ticketing, shop, café and other visitor facilities. It will also contain an introduction to the overall site and the story of powered flight, to help visitors understand the significance of the collection and the historic site itself, framing the visitor experience and improving the visitor journey through the site as a whole.

A new car park will be created adjoining the new hangar, enabling car parking to be removed from the Scheduled Monument site and removing the risk of both traffic and pedestrians sharing the same routes around the historic site.

Vickers Viscount Vulcan

Comet BAC 1-11 Site Design Response

Hoskins Architects P17-013 National Museum of Flight, East Fortune 2017-11-28_New Building Relationship Diagram Hoskins Architects P17-013 National Museum of Flight, East Fortune 2017-11-28_New Building Relationship Diagram East - West Linear Design Exploration East-West Orientation North-South Orientation

The shape and position of the new hangar on the proposed site has an impact on the designs that can be explored during the building design development process. The following design options were considered:

East- West Orientation

Orientating the new building across the proposed site creates a barrier to the existing museum site with the carparking located at the lower end. The available width for the building limits the flexibility of the exhibition design and structural spans that are achievable. This orientation limits entry to the building to the south and requires further consideration of how visitors will move through the building and on to the historic airfield. N N

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entrance building links between North- South Orientation Scheduled Monument & new exhibition

Positioning the building to one side of the proposed site with the elevated cafe with views to aircraft car park arranged alongside, creates a linear exhibition space and exhibits & Scheduled Monument an entrance to the North West of the carpark. The shape of the building provides the opportunity for the design of the internal spaces to take advantage of the change in level across the site visitor and facilitates a key objective to allow the large aircraft to be entrance transported into the new building via a route which lies within the elevated view of Concorde facing proposed site boundary, minimising disruption to other land. North

building is cut into existing site to provide single exhibition level aircraft enter the building from the south

Analysis of Proposed Site

existing visitor routes

treebelt along southern boundary of airfield

proposed site

wooded areas to the south of airfield site slopingto the south existing ticketed sunpath access to the museum central location of proposed site provides good links to rest of Museum

long access road after entrance signage Initial Design Option

Through development of the project brief for the new hangar, the Impression of Internal Exhibition Hall design response which locates the new building north-south on the proposed site includes the following benefits:

• the creation of a new focal point for visitors arriving to the National Museum of Flight

• balancing the significance of the new building and the historic East Fortune airfield site

• allows the aircraft to enter the new proposed site from the North and be manoeuvred into the new building within the boundary of the proposed site

• takes advantage of the existing site levels which slopes down to the south, minimising the site works associated with the construction

The existing public walking route is proposed to be re-routed along the southern edge of the site, indicated below in blue.

Where possible, existing trees will be retained and where removal of trees is required for the construction of the building, these will be replanted within the proposed site.

The visitor entrance, ticketing and cafe, is arranged over two levels at the north of the building creating a link between the new building and historic East Fortune airfield. Visitors enter at ground level to gain an elevated view of the aircraft and descend down to the lower level to explore the Concorde and Jet Age exhibition.

Building Section Concept Sketch

Scheduled Monument Site main exhibition hall visitor accommodation

entrance level

exhibition level

Site Response Sketch

walking route

walking route proposed public walking route connecting to existing Gilmerton House pathway