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Aileron Exterior View

Aileron

CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION

Dayton, OH

The Aileron Center for Entrepreneurial Education is the physical manifestation of a mission: to create an environment for owners of private enterprise to study professional management. Aileron reached out to SKOLNICK to create a unique place, envisioned as a retreat where entrepreneurs and business leaders can escape the everyday challenges of running a venture, focus on big picture thinking, and interface with their peers.

 

Collaboration with Aileron’s founders and stakeholders led to the formulation of key themes that characterize the concept of entrepreneur. These themes served to inform every aspect of the design process.

 

A rural setting on a former farm enhances the visitor’s sense of being removed from everyday challenges. Open views, use of regional materials, orientation around a pond and connection to walking trails all work to reinforce the building’s relationship to the natural surroundings.

 

An ‘aileron’ is the mechanical part of the wing providing an airplane with steering and stability. SKOLNICK grasped the importance of the word to the organization’s mission and created signature aerodynamic roofs that hover over a built landscape of solid shapes and volumes. This architectural theme continues throughout the Aileron Center for Entrepreneurial Education in the shape of interior dividing walls and elements, including graphics and the Aileron logo.

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Services

Interpretive Programming
Master Planning
Site Selection
Site Planning + Design
Architectural Design
Interior Architectural Design
Interior Design
Project Management
Exhibition Design
Graphic Design
Corporate Identity + Logo Design
Signage + Wayfinding

 

Size

70,000 sf
114 acres

 

Awards

Awarded LEED® Gold

 

2008 Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc.
Award of Excellence

“Whatever you are dreaming of building, SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership’s team make it happen in the most amazing way. By teaming with their clients, the insight, ideas, and the choices they provide help everyone involved create a place even better than could be imagined – inside and out.  From non-traditional classrooms to break-out areas to outdoor spaces to a dream room…these results came with the talent, experience, and guidance of SKOLNICK.”

 

Les Banwart, Former Chairman of the Board
Aileron, Center for Entrepreneurial Education

 

 

Aileron in the New York Times

Services

Interpretive Programming
Master Planning
Site Selection
Site Planning + Design
Architectural Design
Interior Architectural Design
Interior Design
Project Management
Exhibition Design
Graphic Design
Corporate Identity + Logo Design
Signage + Wayfinding

 

Size

70,000 sf
114 acres

 

Awards

Awarded LEED® Gold

 

2008 Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc.
Award of Excellence

“Whatever you are dreaming of building, SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership’s team make it happen in the most amazing way. By teaming with their clients, the insight, ideas, and the choices they provide help everyone involved create a place even better than could be imagined – inside and out.  From non-traditional classrooms to break-out areas to outdoor spaces to a dream room…these results came with the talent, experience, and guidance of SKOLNICK.”

 

Les Banwart, Former Chairman of the Board
Aileron, Center for Entrepreneurial Education

 

 

Aileron in the New York Times

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