London-based firm Nex?Architecture has unveiled its plans for a new Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum as a part of the RAF?s 2018 Centenary Program. The new project will revitalize an existing RAF museum in North London that was created in 1972, transforming it into a visitor facility and promoting the airfield heritage of the museum?s location. 

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London-based firm Nex?Architecture has unveiled its plans for a new Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum as a part of the RAF?s 2018 Centenary Program. The new project will revitalize an existing RAF museum in North London that was created in 1972, transforming it into a visitor facility and promoting the airfield heritage of the museum?s location. The new scheme will put emphasis on improving visitor experience by ?establishing a clear route through the exhibition spaces.? A prominent new 40-meter-long entrance and visitor center will be placed inside the Hangar 1 building, acting as a welcome and orientation point.
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Inside, the hangar will be reconfigured to incorporate a new central hub providing a café, shop, members? room, public viewing galleries and flexible use spaces. Clad in extruded aluminum fins and inspired by the overlapping blades of a jet turbine engine, this new element plays with visitors? perceptions of transparency and solidity as they move around the building stated the architect in a pres...