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Vehicle
Maintenance & Storage Facility
New Bedford, MA
The new Vehicle Maintenance & Storage Facility
at the DPW yard in New Bedford includes a vehicle storage area, a
full maintenance garage and staff support spaces in a 15,000 square foot
building.
The facility was designed as a steel frame, flat
roofed structure with ground face concrete masonry (block) walls.
The design ideas were (1) to make a very functional rectangular
plan with staff support spaces sitting between the storage and
maintenance bays; (2) to use durable, good quality, relatively
inexpensive materials; and (3) to use color, and simple shapes to
enliven both the interior and exterior. The large garage doors and
square clerestory windows were treated as punched openings in
the smooth, buff colored ground faced masonry walls and the
interior was brightly painted. A special feature of the maintenance bays was the
inclusion of doors at both sides to allow good ventilation in the summer
and to ease maneuvering of vehicles in tandem repair bays. |
