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  - [Projectiles, France](http://www.projectiles.net)
 
# Airborne Museum, Sainte-Mère-Église

 

  ### A pavilion for the Waco glider

 

 In Sainte-Mère-Église, one of the first landing sites on D-Day in Normandy, the new exhibition pavilion at the Airborne Museum serves as a protective shell for a highly sensitive technical relic: an original Waco CG-4 cargo glider. The fragile, motorless aircraft made of plywood, metal and textile covering transported soldiers and material as part of airborne operations. Today, the preserved exhibit needs an architectural shelter that both protects it and ensures people can see it.

            ![unico Porte and thermfix light Facciate - Airborne Museum, Sainte-Mère-Église](/sites/forster/files/public/styles/image_square/public/inriver/images/144222_PI%20-%20Airborne%20Museum%20-%20outside%20-%2003.jpeg?h=87d750eb&itok=CypDTp-F)  

Full-surface opening of the central exhibition space with the forster thermfix light facade system. Photos: Antoine Cardi

 

 

Conceived as a museum park, the Airborne Museum combines exhibition and open space to create a coherent landscape of remembrance. The new pavilion designed by Projectiles picks up the thread of this aspiration architecturally and positions itself as an independent structure within the park area.

The architectural idea is based on a consistent, full-surface opening. Six-metre-high glass surfaces provide the facade with structure across its entire height. The glazing is mirrored to the outside, reflecting the park landscape, and offering wide views of the museum park from the inside. Horizontal dividers were deliberately avoided.

 

           ![unico Porte and thermfix light Facciate - Airborne Museum, Sainte-Mère-Église](/sites/forster/files/public/styles/image_square/public/inriver/images/144225_PI%20-%20Airborne%20Museum%20-%20outside%20-%2007.jpeg?h=d4e809b0&itok=arC9zFbx)  

The entrance doors with the thermally insulated profile system forster unico blend seamlessly into the glass facade. Photos: Forster Profile Systems

 

 

For the glass facade measuring around 200 square metres, the thermally insulated forster thermfix light facade with attachment profiles was further developed on a project-specific basis. The new version with a face width of 80 millimetres allows glass formats of up to 6 × 2 metres without additional truss elements.

The 3.50-metre-high entrance doors with the thermally insulated profile system forster unico blend seamlessly into the glass facade of the foyer and meet the requirements for heat insulation and robustness in museum operations. As a result, the building’s clear cubic form with its consistent interplay of opaque and mirrored facade areas remains legible as a coherent whole.

 

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- ![unico Porte and thermfix light Facciate - Airborne Museum, Sainte-Mère-Église](/sites/forster/files/public/styles/carousel/public/inriver/images/144219_PI%20-%20Airborne%20Museum%20-%20outside%20-%2005.jpeg?itok=A6XouE9s)
- ![unico Porte and thermfix light Facciate - Airborne Museum, Sainte-Mère-Église](/sites/forster/files/public/styles/carousel/public/inriver/images/144220_PI%20-%20Airborne%20Museum%20-%20outside%20-%2006.jpeg?itok=bEnYHluC)
- ![unico Porte and thermfix light Facciate - Airborne Museum, Sainte-Mère-Église](/sites/forster/files/public/styles/carousel/public/inriver/images/144221_PI%20-%20Airborne%20Museum%20-%20outside%20-%2001.jpeg?itok=0cCBIAHF)
 
 

 

 ### Sistemi usati

       [Porte](/products/porte)

- [unico](/products/porte/unico)
 
       [Facciate](/products/facciate)

- [thermfix light](/products/facciate/thermfix-light)
 
  

 

  ### Parti interessate coinvolte

    Architect

- [Projectiles, France](http://www.projectiles.net)
 
 

    Fabricator

- Renouard, France
 
 

    Fotografo

- Antoine Cardi, France
 
 

    Altri soggetti interessati

- L’association Airborne Museum, France (Clients)
 
 

 

 

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