Little is known about the airplane graveyards in the deserts of the southwest, their expanding area, and ever-growing number of obsolete airplanes. The once majestic and most advanced technological inventions of mankind are discarded to decades of slow erosion by the sun and the wind. For architects this junkyard is an untapped resource ready to be reshaped, reused, and brought back to life. A potential refuge, a new line of furniture, a new housing typology, and many other visions could be created as a second life from these obsolete airliners.

Aero-Architecture 2: A Second Life for Airplanes continues where previous studios left off, starting with further material and structural research of existing airplane technologies, and ending with in-depth projects proposed by 2nd year Graduate Architecture students. While all of the proposals are hypothetical, they still reflect a real concern for today's climate changes, the increasing frequency and destruction of natural disasters, and a variety of architectural interventions to be employed for the benefit of society.

For more information, please read the first booklet in this series, Aero-Architecture by Harry Eggink (http://www.blurb.com/b/5361815-aero-architecture).