Products used: Bricks
Brick type used: Ivanhoe Cream Original
Factory Location: Leicester SM2
Project location: Lincoln
Architects: Stem Architects

The Air Space Institute (IASTI) is a brand new development by Lincoln College. The state-of-the-art centre, completed in 2024, is a word-class facility designed to provide training for young people for various roles within the aviation and space industries, and associated infrastructures.

Representing an investment of more than £10m, the IASTI is a flagship project under the government’s Town Funds programme.

The design of the Institute was spearheaded by Stem Architects, a local firm that specialises in creative and functional design for education, recreation and commercial projects. Design inspiration for the facility was predominately influenced by historic aircraft hangers and the striking characteristics of plane tail fins. IASTI has been designed to accommodate the unique requirements of the college’s aviation and aerospace courses and features a large hangar bay housing the fuselage of a Boeing aircraft.