I'm seriously looking into building a hangar home. I am actively working on the design concept with an architect and structural engineer. The direction I am most interested in is building the style where the living area sits directly atop the hangar.
Structurally this poses the challenge of having clear span I or more likely W beams spanning the clear span width. I am trying to avoid any intermediate columns other than at the very back of the hangar where I would locate a bathroom and work room, or perhaps off to one side where I might locate an auxiliary overhead door bay adjacent to the hangar door for a vehicle.
That said, anything we dream up can be designed, quoted, and built...It becomes a question of $$.
Beam costs and size requirements are NOT proportional to the clear span.
So I am trying to determine what kind of clear span I should have on the hangar and hangar door.
I currently have the Charger and my wife is interested in getting herself a Sonex. Nothing else in the works at this time.
My CAD estimates show that with a 48' wide hangar at 44' wide door I could achieve the goal of fitting both airplanes in at the front and remove either without moving the other. That however is a minimum.
I want to build the widest/ hangar that I can afford.
So the question becomes where the curve diminishing returns really takes a nose dive on the cost of this type of construction is in regard to clear span and beam sizing.
Can anyone share some general advice on the matter before I start feeding money to the structural engineer?
Thanks,
Glenn
Structurally this poses the challenge of having clear span I or more likely W beams spanning the clear span width. I am trying to avoid any intermediate columns other than at the very back of the hangar where I would locate a bathroom and work room, or perhaps off to one side where I might locate an auxiliary overhead door bay adjacent to the hangar door for a vehicle.
That said, anything we dream up can be designed, quoted, and built...It becomes a question of $$.
Beam costs and size requirements are NOT proportional to the clear span.
So I am trying to determine what kind of clear span I should have on the hangar and hangar door.
I currently have the Charger and my wife is interested in getting herself a Sonex. Nothing else in the works at this time.
My CAD estimates show that with a 48' wide hangar at 44' wide door I could achieve the goal of fitting both airplanes in at the front and remove either without moving the other. That however is a minimum.
I want to build the widest/ hangar that I can afford.
So the question becomes where the curve diminishing returns really takes a nose dive on the cost of this type of construction is in regard to clear span and beam sizing.
Can anyone share some general advice on the matter before I start feeding money to the structural engineer?
Thanks,
Glenn
