simINN Flight Simulation Center

57, Echterdinger Straße, Bernhausen, Filderstadt, Germany

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simINN Flight Simulation Center

57, Echterdinger Straße, Bernhausen, Filderstadt, Germany

Firm

Type

Commercial ›
Educational ›

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2011

The simINN Flight Simulation Center in Stuttgart, Germany offers users the full technical performance and visual experience of flying a Boeing 737 without leaving the ground. Within a two hours course the visitors are briefed and accompanied by a flight instructor during take-off, flight and landing of the jet. The simulators are full-size replicas of a boeing 737 and a learjet cockpit, providing the full technical performance and a realistic visual experience by projecting the pilots view on a 230° screen around the cockpit.Our aim was to complete the visual illusion outside the cockpit by creating a dynamic and abstract scenery of an airport runway. The simulators with their adjacent walls are positioned into the spatial concept in order to complete the remaining aircraft parts graphically. From the most significant views, the entrance and the lounge-area, the built and painted aircraft parts match together to create a visual continuity between them. The huge wall graphics become salient and the built components seem to disintegrate.From other perspectives the wall graphics reveal their real expansion in space. They overlay the walls, floor and ceiling to reach the real dimensions of the original planes. The emerging distortions exaggerate the shapes of the airplanes and create varying figures in combination with the built components. Floor graphics, that are based on a runway marking system, take up the movements of the visitors and emphasize the angles of the design.