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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY RIVERSIDE CAMPUS PLAN18FIGURE 1The 1943 Fire Station onFlight Line Road, now theConservation Research Laboratory(7063) used by NauticalArchaeology department.FIGURE 2Student working in the DigitalFabrication Facility on the“Architecture Ranch” at RiversideCampus.1however most other users rely on parking on theedge of the grass bar ditches, or along the edge ofFlight Line Road. Paved areas alongside hangarand maintenance structures also provide informaloff-street parking.Recent grass-fires in the area have drawn attentionto the fact that the sole access to RiversideCampus is from Highway 47, and as this isflanked by pasture land on the north, and a scrubarea identified by the Corps of Engineers as a‘safe’ land fill, the issue of safe egress in the caseof fire is one of concern.FACILITY EVALUATIONA recent Facility Evaluation Assessment undertakenby Texas A&M University in 2009 expresslyexcluded consideration of the RiversideCampus. Evaluations were undertaken by themilitary authorities in 1957 and a great manybuildings were identified as poor quality with alimited useful life at that time.An architectural windshield survey was conductedin July 2011 by the RCP team to establish thearchitectural qualities and the current physicalconditions of the buildings.The majority of the 1943 historic buildings havealready gone. The remaining structures blendwith the later structures at Riverside. The utilitariannature of the historic structures allowsthem to be used for a variety of contemporarypurposes. For example, the Nautical Archaeologydepartment uses the 1952 fire station (7063)as a Conservation Research Laboratory. The spatialqualities of the structure allow the researchersto conduct conservation and research of partsof salvaged vessels and use the adjacent land forstorage and desalination of waterlogged items.The department has also built contemporarystructures around the Fire Station building forfurther research and storage. The historic buildingsthat are not occupied are rapidly deteriorating.One of the remaining 1943 hangars (7072)was demolished in July 2011 due to the dilapidatedcondition of the building. There are severalcontemporary architectural examples such as the2006 ‘Architectural Ranch’ (7007), a facility forfull-scale construction and digital fabrication,which shows how a new structure can embracethe cultural heritage values of the Riverside campuswhile meeting contemporary research needs.The design of the building reflects the sensibilitiesof the industrial architecture of WWII, mimickingthe earlier wooden structures by its metalframe and exterior siding. In addition, the buildingmaintains a similar mass and height to earlierbuildings.2
CURRENT CONDITIONS19CHARACTER EVALUATIONto the roof. The building is partially occupied asstructure with six wooden roof trusses, with anFIGURE 3The buildings on the Riverside Campus exhibit adirectness, simplicity and functional pragmatismby virtue of being constructed during the periodthe campus was a military base. There are threemajor architectural types; barracks and offices,wide span hangars, and large warehouse structures.The first building type constitutes the barrack/offices, but utilizes inefficient window units forcooling, and has significant maintenance issues.The second building type is the wide span hangars.One of the remaining hangars from the1943 military base is Hangar 46 also known asT46 (7046). It was built as a Flight MechanicsHangar for various airplanes. Hangar 46 is woodframed with wooden trusses. It is a timber frameoriginal clear span of 125 feet. The 1955 evaluationindicated significant deflection in the roofand six 12” diameter wooden columns wereadded at approximately one-third span. The floorand the adjacent apron that reaches to Flight LineRoad are concrete. There are no interior finishes.A mezzanine storage area over offices stretchesalong the north wall. The structure originally hadlarge metal sliding doors with wood panels and aPresent interior of 1943Hangar 7046 showing timberconstruction, October 2011.office buildings that date back to 1943. Thesebuildings were built with a wood frame on a concreteslab. The exterior material is pressed woodfiberpanels. They have shallow pitch roofs. Thebuildings are approximately 17 feet tall to theridge line. Most of the buildings have simplerectangular plans, though others have ‘L’ or ‘U’plan forms. At the peak of the military presencethere were over 120 barrack buildings, not countingthe hospital barrack units. The few remainingare in very poor condition , even those beingused for storage (7176, 7177, 7178, etc.). However,the Turbo Lab Storage and Biology Storage(7078, 7079) barracks have been upgraded andare serviceable for this purpose. The headquartersbuilding (8007) was constructed in 1952 as themain administration office of the military base.It is a ‘U’ shaped building with a minimal slope3
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