
1_MAD_丽水机场
北京
An aerial precedent for biomorphic large-span terminal design that integrates organic roof profiles with dramatic mountainous topography.
- What we like about this project
- The terminal roof dips low to mimic natural topography while maintaining immense clear-span volume underneath.
Materials
- white-composite
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- biomorphic-roof
- curvilinear-shell
- mountain-backdrop
- airport-terminal
Style tags
- biomorphic
- contemporary
- organic-futurism
Visual tags
- organic-architecture
- infrastructure
- aerial-view
- large-span
- misty-atmosphere
- Geometry
- Low-slung, biomorphic curvilinear shell roof spans across a terminal concourse, echoing the rolling contours of the background mountains.
- Facade system
- Curved continuous shell roof meeting dark ribbon glazing at the ground level.
- Structural guess
- Long-span steel space frame or shell structure supporting a contoured lightweight roof.
- Spatial scale
- Vast macro-scale landscape perspective where the multi-acre terminal reads as a low curving ribbon against mountains.
- Lighting
- Warm, golden sunset glow casting soft atmospheric haze and long silhouettes over the mountainous backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, monumental, and picturesque against the hazy layered mountain horizon.
- Environmental context
- Expansive airfield setting surrounded by layered, misty mountain ranges in a high-altitude or valley landscape.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits vast and horizontal along the airfield edge, mediating between the scale of infrastructure and the expansive natural topography.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal terminal mass anchored below descending diagonal mountain ridges.
- Style reading
- Contemporary organic biomorphic architecture
- Program
- Airport terminal building
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- white-composite, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- biomorphic-roof, curvilinear-shell, mountain-backdrop, airport-terminal
- Style tags
- biomorphic, contemporary, organic-futurism
- Visual tags
- organic-architecture, infrastructure, aerial-view, large-span, misty-atmosphere
- Geometry
- Low-slung, biomorphic curvilinear shell roof spans across a terminal concourse, echoing the rolling contours of the background mountains.
- Facade system
- Curved continuous shell roof meeting dark ribbon glazing at the ground level.
- Structural guess
- Long-span steel space frame or shell structure supporting a contoured lightweight roof.
- Spatial scale
- Vast macro-scale landscape perspective where the multi-acre terminal reads as a low curving ribbon against mountains.
- Lighting
- Warm, golden sunset glow casting soft atmospheric haze and long silhouettes over the mountainous backdrop.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, monumental, and picturesque against the hazy layered mountain horizon.
- Environmental context
- Expansive airfield setting surrounded by layered, misty mountain ranges in a high-altitude or valley landscape.
- Spatial experience
- The building sits vast and horizontal along the airfield edge, mediating between the scale of infrastructure and the expansive natural topography.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal terminal mass anchored below descending diagonal mountain ridges.
- Style reading
- Contemporary organic biomorphic architecture
- Program
- Airport terminal building
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture