Hodgdon Powder Facility

摘要

During much of its 50-plus-year history, Hodgdon, a gunpowder manufacturer, has operated out of three World War II-era Quonset huts in Herrington, Kan. The versatility of these column-free vaulted structures fits the company's needs nicely, but the facilities nonetheless were in dire need of an upgrade. The renovation by Kansas City, Mo.-based architectural firm El Dorado, with the lighting design overseen by Derek Porter Studio, takes a simple and clean approach, using light and color to accentuate the industrial purity of these prefabricated building systems.rnOn the interior, the designers integrated lighting and mechanical systems. Linear fluorescent T5H0 striplights were positioned atop HVAC ducts running through the center of the space. From this perch, out of view from Hodgdon's employees, the fixtures cast light against the white-painted corrugated iron ceiling, creating a luminous canopy above the workstations that delivers an even distribution of light, free of shadow lines.