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Shanghai-based AIA Life Designers defines large-scale civic and mixed-use developments through expressive structural tectonics, integrating carved vertical sky gardens, origami-folded supports, and warm timber soffits beneath cantilevered concrete masses. This portfolio provides a strong reference when designing high-volume public atriums and concourses that require balancing heavy structural junctions with diffused night lighting and multi-level green pockets.

Night view of an airport terminal facade with saw-tooth roof trusses by AIA Life Designers.

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上海

An exterior terminal precedent illustrating a saw-tooth roof typology and extensive structural glazing viewed from the airside apron at dusk.

What we like about this project
The translucent vertical upper gables softly diffuse interior light upward into the night sky.

Materials

  • glass
  • steel
  • concrete
  • metal-panel

Visual identifiers

  • saw-tooth-roof
  • terminal-facade
  • structural-glazing
  • tarmac-view

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • industrial
  • high-tech

Visual tags

  • aviation
  • transportation
  • curtain-wall
  • twilight-lighting
  • industrial-scale
Geometry
A long horizontal terminal facade punctuated by a rhythm of repeated saw-tooth gable roof forms and full-height structural glazing.
Facade system
Full-height unitized structural glazing system with integrated light-filtering louvers.
Structural guess
Steel space frame and truss system supporting saw-tooth roof monitors.
Spatial scale
Massive aviation scale, framed by parked aircraft and service vehicles in the foreground.
Lighting
Twilight ambient sky with bright artificial interior illumination projecting outwards through glazed facades and roof monitors.
Atmosphere
Clean, cool twilight balanced by warm interior operational glow.
Environmental context
Wide open tarmac apron in front of a commercial airport terminal at dusk.
Spatial experience
The deep apron perspective reveals a glowing, transparent concourse wall bridging tarmac scale with interior clarity.
Composition rhythm
Repeating triangular roof trusses and vertical mullions establish a rhythmic civic facade.
Style reading
Contemporary transportation architecture
Program
Airport terminal concourse
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
glass, steel, concrete, metal-panel
Visual identifiers
saw-tooth-roof, terminal-facade, structural-glazing, tarmac-view
Style tags
contemporary, industrial, high-tech
Visual tags
aviation, transportation, curtain-wall, twilight-lighting, industrial-scale
Geometry
A long horizontal terminal facade punctuated by a rhythm of repeated saw-tooth gable roof forms and full-height structural glazing.
Facade system
Full-height unitized structural glazing system with integrated light-filtering louvers.
Structural guess
Steel space frame and truss system supporting saw-tooth roof monitors.
Spatial scale
Massive aviation scale, framed by parked aircraft and service vehicles in the foreground.
Lighting
Twilight ambient sky with bright artificial interior illumination projecting outwards through glazed facades and roof monitors.
Atmosphere
Clean, cool twilight balanced by warm interior operational glow.
Environmental context
Wide open tarmac apron in front of a commercial airport terminal at dusk.
Spatial experience
The deep apron perspective reveals a glowing, transparent concourse wall bridging tarmac scale with interior clarity.
Composition rhythm
Repeating triangular roof trusses and vertical mullions establish a rhythmic civic facade.
Style reading
Contemporary transportation architecture
Program
Airport terminal concourse
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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Night view of an airport terminal facade with saw-tooth roof trusses by AIA Life Designers.

图片4

上海

An exterior terminal precedent illustrating a saw-tooth roof typology and extensive structural glazing viewed from the airside apron at dusk.

What we like about this project
The translucent vertical upper gables softly diffuse interior light upward into the night sky.

Materials

  • glass
  • steel
  • concrete
  • metal-panel

Visual identifiers

  • saw-tooth-roof
  • terminal-facade
  • structural-glazing
  • tarmac-view

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • industrial
  • high-tech

Visual tags

  • aviation
  • transportation
  • curtain-wall
  • twilight-lighting
  • industrial-scale
Geometry
A long horizontal terminal facade punctuated by a rhythm of repeated saw-tooth gable roof forms and full-height structural glazing.
Facade system
Full-height unitized structural glazing system with integrated light-filtering louvers.
Structural guess
Steel space frame and truss system supporting saw-tooth roof monitors.
Spatial scale
Massive aviation scale, framed by parked aircraft and service vehicles in the foreground.
Lighting
Twilight ambient sky with bright artificial interior illumination projecting outwards through glazed facades and roof monitors.
Atmosphere
Clean, cool twilight balanced by warm interior operational glow.
Environmental context
Wide open tarmac apron in front of a commercial airport terminal at dusk.
Spatial experience
The deep apron perspective reveals a glowing, transparent concourse wall bridging tarmac scale with interior clarity.
Composition rhythm
Repeating triangular roof trusses and vertical mullions establish a rhythmic civic facade.
Style reading
Contemporary transportation architecture
Program
Airport terminal concourse
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture
Materials
glass, steel, concrete, metal-panel
Visual identifiers
saw-tooth-roof, terminal-facade, structural-glazing, tarmac-view
Style tags
contemporary, industrial, high-tech
Visual tags
aviation, transportation, curtain-wall, twilight-lighting, industrial-scale
Geometry
A long horizontal terminal facade punctuated by a rhythm of repeated saw-tooth gable roof forms and full-height structural glazing.
Facade system
Full-height unitized structural glazing system with integrated light-filtering louvers.
Structural guess
Steel space frame and truss system supporting saw-tooth roof monitors.
Spatial scale
Massive aviation scale, framed by parked aircraft and service vehicles in the foreground.
Lighting
Twilight ambient sky with bright artificial interior illumination projecting outwards through glazed facades and roof monitors.
Atmosphere
Clean, cool twilight balanced by warm interior operational glow.
Environmental context
Wide open tarmac apron in front of a commercial airport terminal at dusk.
Spatial experience
The deep apron perspective reveals a glowing, transparent concourse wall bridging tarmac scale with interior clarity.
Composition rhythm
Repeating triangular roof trusses and vertical mullions establish a rhythmic civic facade.
Style reading
Contemporary transportation architecture
Program
Airport terminal concourse
Perspective
Exterior Facade
Discipline
architecture

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