Airship buildings are the
most outstanding design areas for both architects and engineers. To make a
house for
an aircraft lighter than air puts some different difficulties in
front of the
designers, such as always fighting with wind while launching the
airship inside the building. For the function of the building requires an empty
space inside and because of the huge dimensions of the buildings, the designers
are in need of overcoming the
structural forces in the economic meaning without
losing the elegant appearance of the building. This means that every type of
structural form could be used while designing the framework of the building
even with ground slab or without. The envelope of the building should be light
enough in the meaning of dead load, but also should be hard against bending
moments. The gates are from the most important parts of the building. Airship
buildings are the important samples which it could be easily seen that
aesthetic follows the structural quality.