Beijing New Airport Terminal Building Daxing, China / Zaha Hadid

Beijing New Airport Headquarters (BNAH)

JOINT DESIGN TEAM (OPTIMISED CONCEPT DESIGN STAGE):

ADP Ingeniérie (ADPI) and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)

with Buro Happold, Mott Macdonald and EC Harris

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA):

Design Airport Terminal Building Daxing, China - Zaha hadid

Design: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher

Zaha Hadid Project Directors: Cristiano Ceccato, Charles Walker

Zaha Hadid Project Architects: Paulo Flores, Lydia Kim

Project Coordination: Eugene Leung, Shao-Wei Huang

Zaha Hadid Project Team: Uli Blum, Antonio Monserrat, Alberto Moletto, Sophie Davison, Carolina Lopez-Blanco, Shaun Farrell, Junyi Wang, Ermis Chalvatzis, Rafael Contreras, Michael Grau, Fernando Poucell, Gerry Cruz, Filipa Gomez, Kyla Farrell, Natassa Lianou, Teoman Ayas, Peter Logan, Yun Zhang, Karoly Markos, Irene Guerra

Beijing Support Team: Satoshi Ohashi, Rita Lee, Yang Jingwen,

Lillie Liu

CONSORTIUM TEAM (COMPETITION STAGE):

ZHA (Lead), Pascall + Watson, Buro Happold, Mott Macdonald,

EC Harris. Consultants: McKinsey & Company, Dunnett Craven, Triagonal, Logplan, Sensing Places

LOCAL DESIGN INSTITUTE:

BIAD (Beijing Institute of Architecture & Design) and CACC (China Airport Construction Company)

Project Data

Size: 700,000 m2 total floor area + 80,000 m2 ground transportation centre

Capacity: 45 million passengers per year (expanding to 72 million)

Site Plan Of Airport Terminal Building Daxing, China - Zaha hadid

Design Description :

The Beijing New Airport terminal building will be extremely user-focussed, efficient, adaptable and sustainable for future growth to serve the world’s fastest growing aviation sector. The client, Beijing New Airport Headquarters, adopted the 6-pier radial concept developed by ADPI as it gives exceptional functionality and flexibility.

Design Airport Terminal Building Daxing, China - Zaha hadid

The design celebrates the connectivity and dynamism of air travel; expressed as a sequence of inspirational inter-connected public spaces. The flowing rooflines cover the large, column-free spaces and provide a sense of scale and orientation – welcoming the world to Beijing. All of the passenger pathways through the terminal converge within the central courtyard, creating a multi-layered civic space - a public square and meeting place for passengers from around the globe - at the very heart of the terminal.

The terminal’s compact design minimizes the distances between check-in and gate, and also the distances between gates for transferring passengers. These transferring passengers will disembark and walk a short distance to the central courtyard, then on to their next gate. Aircraft piers radiate outwards from this central space, maximizing the number of planes that can park adjacent to the terminal.

International and domestic passenger areas are separated vertically – not spread out horizontally as at most other airports. This further contributes to a more compact terminal building.

The radial layout greatly improves adaptability and sustainability by enabling the terminal to operate in the many different configurations most appropriate to the varying aircraft and passenger traffic throughout each day. The compact design also reduces the requirements for shuttle trains between the many terminals that are common at other large airports. The installation, maintenance and operation of shuttle trains is expensive, with constant energy demands to continually ferry passengers through the airport. The radial design of the Beijing New Airport Terminal enables passengers to simply walk the short distances to everywhere they need to go within the airport.

Design Airport Terminal Building Daxing, China - Zaha hadid

Housing many departure gates in one terminal with a single passenger handling centre – rather than building an airport with many smaller terminals and many handling systems – is also beneficial. This ultimately reduces the carbon footprint of the airport throughout its construction and operational lifetime – further contributing to reaching the airport’s very high targets of environmental management and sustainability.

Although large to accommodate the many passengers and aircraft, the terminal building maintains a relationship to a human scale and sense of direction. These characteristics have evolved from traditional Chinese architecture where intricate compositions of connecting volumes define exterior and interior spaces that guide visitors as they progress through the architecture. In this airport terminal design, passengers are similarly guided seamlessly through the building via a sequence of public spaces that flow into each other, leading to the grand central courtyard - the primary gathering space for departing, arriving and transferring global passengers - ensuring every visitor has the most convenient and enjoyable user experience.

The overall symmetry of the airport terminal design, together with its flowing, interconnected forms create a fluid composition which evokes the harmony and balance evident in Chinese natural landscapes, while its colours and materials are an expression of visual language within traditional Chinese culture. The design of the new terminal reflects China’s rich cultural history and its remarkable future at the centre of a worldwide stage.

Design Airport Terminal Building Daxing, China - Zaha hadid

Press Statement :
ADP Ingeniérie (ADPI) and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) have completed the concept design for the world’s largest airport passenger terminal - the Beijing New Airport Terminal Building - in Daxing, Beijing, under the leadership of the Beijing New Airport Headquarters (BNAH), based on the bid-winning planning scheme by ADPI.

Design Airport Terminal Building Daxing, China - Zaha hadid

Following the 2011 international competition bid, in October 2014 the Beijing New Airport Headquarters created a Joint Design Team bringing together ADPI and Zaha Hadid Architects with competition consortium group members Buro Happold, Mott Macdonald and EC Harris to collaborate on the optimised concept design for the Beijing New Airport Terminal Building.
With Beijing’s existing Capital Airport already exceeding its planned capacity, the new airport will serve the world’s fastest growing aviation sector and enable further connections between Beijing and cultural, economic and civic centres around the globe. Initially accommodating 45 million passengers per year and expanding to 72 million, the new terminal will be adaptable and sustainable, operating in many different configurations dependant on varying aircraft and passenger traffic throughout each day. With an integrated multi-modal transport centre featuring direct links to local and national rail services including the Gaotie high speed rail, the new Daxing airport will be a key hub within Beijing’s growing transport network and a catalyst for the region’s economic development, including the city of Tianjin and Hebei Province

Design Airport Terminal Building Daxing, China - Zaha hadid

The Joint Design Team scheme integrates principles originally developed during the competition phase by ADPI and the Zaha Hadid Consortium Group respectively, which included Pascall+Watson, Buro Happold, Mott Macdonald and EC Harris. ZHA’s projects include some of the world’s most popular, user-focused and adaptable civic architecture that prioritises the public realm and user experience. This expertise, together with ADPI’s history and knowledge of airport planning and development, will ensure the new terminal at Daxing to be the world’s most convenient, sustainable and future-proof airport.
Following the completion of the concept design stage, the project is now being led by the Local Design Institute team under the continued leadership of BNAH.

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Design Elektra House In London / Adjaye Associates

Architect / David Adjaye, Adjaye Associates

Elektra House Building Located in London, England, United Kingdom, The Architectural Designer House is Architect / David Adjaye, Adjaye Associates,

The David Adjaye (born 1966, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), British-based architect of Ghanaian descent who won international acclaim for his diverse designs and innovative use of materials and light.

Design Elektra House

The Elektra House Designed by Adjaye, David Adjaye,  Adjaye Associates We find in the architectural ideas of the house that the elements tend to vary widely in appearance, because they are inspired by specific standards of physical space to be occupied and the intended function of the building. Electra House of Representatives and dirty (in 2000 and 2002, respectively, both in London) and two of the most well-known private residences designed by examples .

Elek-tra House

The Urban Houses Elektra House Private Residence for Client,  The total area of the house 130 m2 

 Elektra House-Urban Houses

• Project Description, Elektra House : 

The Elektra house was conceived as a large-scale light box and has no conventional windows. It stands on a site that was previously occupied by a single-storey workshop and there are several references to the earlier building in the new house. The height of the front facade is the same as the neighbouring houses but, like its predecessor, it has the appearance of a single storey structure. The clients for the Elektra house were two artists, with small children, who wanted to be able to use the living space for the display of art. With its generous width and top-lighting, the space behind the front facade was intended for this purpose. After the openness of the ground floor, the first floor is laid out as a series of separate rooms lit by rooflights. The only view of the surrounding area is from the top of the staircase, looking through the curtain wall that forms the top half of the back facade. 

Electra House

Despite the dark colour of the front and side facades, the physical character of the exterior is light rather than heavy. Most of the construction is hidden from view: on the street facade, the pattern of open joints between panels of resin-faced plywood is the most noticeable detail. Towards the street, the unbroken plane of the facade draws attention to the section of the street and the scale of the panels hints at the rhythm of the missing windows. 

site-plan-Electra-House

The client, a sculptor with two small children, desired a flexible home which would contain a space in which to work as well as live. The program made use of the existing boundary walls and foundations. A new steel frame was inserted, from which hang the facades, allowing a small load to be trans-ferred onto the existing footings. 

side-elevation

The front of the house faces north and is conceived as an insulated facade with no outside views. This mute elevation is expressed in the interior as a double-height space with a continuous skylight running the length of the house, acting as a light chimney for the flexible live/work space on the ground. 

front-elevation

The back of the house faces south and enjoys the full east to west aspect. This is exploited by making a large glazed clerestory and reflecting wall, cre-ating a second double-height space, which scoops sunlight into the ground floor. The lower part of the elevation is divided into two: on one side is a glazed box and on the other a concertina window system opens onto a walled court space. 

Ground-floor-plan

first-floor-plan

Roof-floor-plan

The upper floor is entered on the east side by a maple staircase. Upstairs, the rooms are small but the floor to ceiling heights are deliberately tall (3.2 meters). Each room has a full height door, which is the same thickness as the wall construction, and a skylight which is positioned to reflect as much light into the rooms as possible. The skylights are inclined in a specific direc-tion resulting in a clock-like effect. 

Elektra-House

Elektra-House

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Elektra House Building, London, England, United Kingdom

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