In cleaning out the container, I was reminded that we have a projection screen, seven or eight feet wide.
We have, in the past, had parties where we watched movies.
While not a big construction consideration, we might want to put it in a checklist and think about where the best place to hang it would be.

If you look very closely, there *is* a harness.
Wolfie is daring, no doubt, but he’s not suicidal.

As long as we’re doing a complete reimagining of the LZ facilities, consider this pipe dream:
Digging out the very top of the parking lot to inset the existing storage containers.
Some reinforced concrete on top, then some dirt and/or grass.
This would add area to the East approach, making it wider.
This would open up all the area where the containers currently are for parking.
And that parking would be gravitationally advantageous.
Having a wider area would make it easier to have multiple rows of cars.
Yes, we get an extra row in now, but it’s pretty tight.
Storage would be much closer to the LZ, too.

Because someone has to be responsible and retract them.

We can’t keep the freaking door locked overnight on the container.

I’m there quite a bit, but I’m not always the last one there.

Rather than minimum cost right now, we should be thinking maximum utility over the next 25 to 50 years

I think spending money on a professionally engineered solution now is going to be cheaper in the long run.

I’m pretty sure we had fewer than 100 members when the former structure got built.  Granted, it came together a little higgledy-piggledy, and at relatively low cost to the club, because IIRC a large portion of the materials were donated by members.   Pretty much all the labor was.  If we had built the bottom of the columns in a way that didn’t let them deteriorate due to moisture, we might still have it.

But now we have 200+ members, and multiple instructors.  Even if most of the students don’t hang around and become regular users, they’re still wanting shade in between kiting while they’re students.

Maybe the plan should plan on taking the building in stages, but in a modular and expandable way.

I like the hip roofs.  No matter which way the wind comes it’s at a negative AoA.  Well, zero, I suppose, overall, but you know what I mean.

That suggests an idea to me:   a vented hip.  Viewed from the side, in ascii art it would look something like:  / —– \ , although I expect the slashes would be at much lower angles, and there would be more overlap with the hyphens.

I’m not sure how you’d calculate what the optimum opening at the top is.  You’d want the air displaced by one side to “shade” the positive AoA of the other.

On the other hand, a flat roof would probably work, because it did, until it got structurally compromised by rot.

Jai Paul is an architect, and has kindly volunteered to supervise the design.  He says he’ll design to code, upgraded to 130 mph wind, which is comfortably above anything I’ve ever seen out there.

I’ll trust calculation over “that looks about right.”