Gensler
An airside view of an airport terminal featuring dark vertical louvers, a folded roof profile, and integrated boarding bridges—useful as an infrastructure design precedent.
- What we like about this project
- The central glazed gable integrates directly underneath the asymmetric folds of the roofline.
Materials
- metal
- glass
- concrete
- steel
Visual identifiers
- fluted-metal-cladding
- folded-roofline
- elevated-concourse
- boarding-bridges
- apron-view
Style tags
- contemporary
- industrial
- infrastructure
Visual tags
- aviation
- infrastructure
- transportation
- metal-facade
- large-span
- Geometry
- Low-slung sprawling volume with a faceted, sloping roofline lifted over a raised concourse floor, elevated on slender columns above the apron level.
- Facade system
- Dark vertical metal louvers/cladding paired with extensive structural glass ribbon windows and a folded overhang roof.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame superstructure elevated on concrete or steel pilotis above the tarmac level.
- Spatial scale
- Large infrastructure scale; two-story terminal volume dwarfing ground service vehicles and workers.
- Lighting
- Bright, low-angle daylight casting long soft shadows across the flat apron surface under an open sky.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, efficient, and operational atmosphere under an open sky.
- Environmental context
- Expansive paved airside apron with parked ground service equipment, aircraft, and distant mountains under a morning or late afternoon sky.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits open to the tarmac, with elevated walkways and boarding bridges creating clear operational flows between the ground and upper levels.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fluting on the facade creates a steady rhythm, interrupted by horizontal ribbon windows and glazed boarding connectors.
- Style reading
- Contemporary utilitarian aviation architecture
- Program
- Airport terminal and boarding concourse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- metal, glass, concrete, steel
- Visual identifiers
- fluted-metal-cladding, folded-roofline, elevated-concourse, boarding-bridges, apron-view
- Style tags
- contemporary, industrial, infrastructure
- Visual tags
- aviation, infrastructure, transportation, metal-facade, large-span
- Geometry
- Low-slung sprawling volume with a faceted, sloping roofline lifted over a raised concourse floor, elevated on slender columns above the apron level.
- Facade system
- Dark vertical metal louvers/cladding paired with extensive structural glass ribbon windows and a folded overhang roof.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame superstructure elevated on concrete or steel pilotis above the tarmac level.
- Spatial scale
- Large infrastructure scale; two-story terminal volume dwarfing ground service vehicles and workers.
- Lighting
- Bright, low-angle daylight casting long soft shadows across the flat apron surface under an open sky.
- Atmosphere
- Clear, efficient, and operational atmosphere under an open sky.
- Environmental context
- Expansive paved airside apron with parked ground service equipment, aircraft, and distant mountains under a morning or late afternoon sky.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits open to the tarmac, with elevated walkways and boarding bridges creating clear operational flows between the ground and upper levels.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical fluting on the facade creates a steady rhythm, interrupted by horizontal ribbon windows and glazed boarding connectors.
- Style reading
- Contemporary utilitarian aviation architecture
- Program
- Airport terminal and boarding concourse
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture