Airport Design | Lleida-Alguaire Airport | Spain | b720 Arquitectos

The programme includes a terminal building, the control tower and two areas devoted to garages. The project is aimed at joining the three programmes in one look searching for a balance between avoiding the landing of a strange artefact over Lleida countryside and not losing the reference character of the landscape. A big cover simulating a continuous mantle covers the building unifying its different functions and structures, folding up at both sides of the control tower and designing the vertical module........more

Spaceport for Spaceship II | 2008 Space Xperience Curacao [SXC] | Curacao,Caribbean | ONL

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The Curacao Ambition. The ambition of the intitiators Harry van Hulten and Ben Droste *) of the Space Xperience Curacao© BV [SXC], supported by the Curacao authorities and their entrepreneurs, is to create a major touristic attractor for the Caribbean, hosting the future operator for Galactic Travels, and offering a venue for international scientific space research. The SXC landmark building, designed by the internationally renowned Dutch design studio ONL **), will be built as a spaceship, applying maritime and aviation techniques on the building body of the SXC. The SXC will be an inspiring venue both for the international scientific community, the future astronauts and for the tourists who will bring home a memorable Experience from the Space Xperience Curacao.

Date: 2008

Site: Curacao

Design: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]

Lead designers: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd

Design team: Marthijn Pool, Chris Kievid, Martin Henriksen, Yvonne Beying, Christian Tschersich

Client: Janssen de Jong, B.A.C. Droste & Harry van Hulten

Text and images from:ONL

CORDOBA AIRPORT | Estudio Lamela

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Project:
CORDOBA AIRPORT

Situación:
CORDOBA

Client:
INECO

Team:
Jesús Hernández, Ana Guasp, José J. Horcajo, Virginia Hernández, José A. Torrecilla and Francisco J. Martín
Floor Area (m²):
9.000m2 + 25.000m2 urbanitation
Budget (€):
24.000.000

Date Project:
January 2008
Data and images from:Estudio Lamela

VADODARA AIRPORT Vadodara, Gujarat, India 2008 |Frederic Schwartz

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Invited International Competition Winner.

The New Integrated Terminal at Vadodara Airport is an iconic and sleek contemporary structure featuring an arching, sweeping roof that spans the entire length of the terminal. Inspired by the body and wings of airplanes, the building’s bold sweeping form and identity is achieved by wrapping the East and West sides and the roof with one continuous aerodynamic metal skin. Careful analysis of the building’s orientation informs its unique design. A large overhang on the North (cityside) shelters the transparent facade while shading and protecting passengers along the curbside. This profile then creates an overhang on the South (airside) so that the panoramic glass curtain wall is completely shaded from the strong sun. The volumetric proportion of the interior spaces combined with filtered natural light from skylights above and the sound of flowing water will activate and enliven the experience inside the terminal.

Great airports have the ability to create a sense of excitement, anticipation and spirit of flight, even from a distance. Approaching the new terminal from Vadodara, passengers will see the terminal’s iconic aerodynamic volume levitating above the landscape. Incoming vehicles follow the internal roadway loop surrounded by green trees. Passengers arrive at the curb protected by a large overhang that is punctuated with clear circular openings to provide natural light and induce natural ventilation.

The organization of the terminal is straightforward and efficient. The basis of planning is sequential with all terminal functions supported by clear wayfinding. Although there is a definite division between airside and landside spaces, the terminal is connected visually around a central zone. Passenger and baggage circulation is organized so that departing and arriving passengers as well as domestic and international passengers do not mingle at any point on the airside of the building.

The stepped pool acts as a natural and physical separation between the visitor area and the check-in zone while creating a memorable experience for passengers, its reflectivity offering a psychological respite and calming of the soul for travelers.

With its sleek curved roof, the building’s steel structure rises to form a light and open, column-free terminal with expansive glass curtain walls that create a feeling of spaciousness. Skylights follow the geometry of the roof allowing natural light to permeate the terminal. The roof structure creates column-free public spaces for both the Public Concourses and the Holdroom areas. The structural design and repetition of the basic module result in maximum efficiency for engineering, fabrication and construction considerations. To the East and West, the roof-supporting trusses rest on shear walls. The large forces generated at the base of these elements are transferred directly to the foundations. Departures level floors will be constructed using both post-tensioned and conventionally reinforced concrete. To insure maximum structural efficiency and to limit the overall depth of the structural envelope, girders will be post-tensioned. The beams and slabs framing into these girders will be designed using conventional reinforced concrete construction methods.

Texts and images from:Frederic Schwartz

Air Traffic Control Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia-SVA

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Source:

public tender, selected project

Client:

Slovenian Air Navigation Services, Ltd.

Address/Site:

Airport Brnik, Slovenia

Site area:

7996 m2

Building area:

2350 m2

Storeys:

basement + ground floor + 2

Structure:

reinforced concrete

Cladding:

glass, alu-panels

Nr. of parkings:

garage 98 + plato 49

Areas:

ATTC:

8.320 m2

garage:

2.978 m2

Architect:

SVA (Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Tomaž Krištof, Aleksandar Lalić, Miha Čebulj, Špela Štern)

Madrid Barajas Airport-Richard Rogers

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Location: Madrid-Barajas, Spain
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Design: 1998 - 1999
Construction: 2000 - 2005
Operation: 2006
Full Operation: 2010
Built Area:1,158,000m²
Cost:1,238,000,000 euros
Co-Architect: Estudio Lamela

New Córdoba Airport

2003 | Córdoba | A metallic structure holds a two level aluminium mesh which produces a fresh shadow all along the complex including accesses, garden surrounded paths and parking areas. Under the shadow, a cloud shapped volume houses paths and lounges. It's a calm silent fresh space lightly iluminated.
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New European Air Traffic Control Center

Built | 2003 | Torrejón de Ardoz | Spain is to become the first of the four countries in which the new stations for satellite controlled air-traffic - based on the teaming og 30 Galileo satellites - will be housed.
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VIP Terminal Heathrow-M2R Architecture

Copenhagen Terminal 3 by Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects, Denmark

Client/Property developers: Naviair
Architects: Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects
Consultant Engineers: Moe & Brødsgaard A/S
Contractor: Pihl & Søn A/S
Area: 3.273 m²
Year: 2002-05
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Lublin International Airport - Are

Warsaw-based architects Are have designed a new terminal building for Lublin International Airport in Poland.

Lublin Airport
CLIENT/DEVELOPER: Port Lotniczy Lublin S.A.
LOCATION: Lublin, Poland
AREA: TERMINAL: 17.345 mq
CONTROL TOWER: 2.114 mq
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING: 901 mq
PROGRAMME: airport renovation and expansion

Shenzen Bao'an International Airport in Shenzen, China

Architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have been awarded the honour of designing the new terminal 3 at Shenzen Bao'an International Airport in Shenzen, China. Their winning design features a glass roof linking it to the other terminals, letting natural light flood into the concourse. the facade is made from a double skin consisting of a fine net on the interior and patterned glass linked through a geometric structure. With the addition of the new terminal, Shenzen Airport will become China's fourth largest.