Airport Terminals

Fülszöveg

In the five years since publication of the first edition, many new airport terminals and facílities have been completed, including those at Kansai, Denver Colorado, Munich, Macau, Chicago, Southampton, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Manchester, Birmingham Eurohub, Gatwick North, amongst others. There have been new designs for Moscow, Hong Kong, Heathrow. Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur,These last five years have alsó seen improvements in baggage security, privatization, more plans for the NLA, the arrival of the B3777 and sub-apron services at Stockholm Árlanda. All these new terminals and improvements are included ín this updated edition of Chris Blow's boolc Airport passenger terminals have developed to be a major new publíc buildingtype representíng transportation in the late twentieth century. The funetional pianníng of facílities for aircraft and people. and the architectural forms to accommodate them.are of great interest to designers and the myriad of people who work ín, and visít,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In the five years since publication of the first edition, many new airport terminals and facílities have been completed, including those at Kansai, Denver Colorado, Munich, Macau, Chicago, Southampton, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Manchester, Birmingham Eurohub, Gatwick North, amongst others. There have been new designs for Moscow, Hong Kong, Heathrow. Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur,These last five years have alsó seen improvements in baggage security, privatization, more plans for the NLA, the arrival of the B3777 and sub-apron services at Stockholm Árlanda. All these new terminals and improvements are included ín this updated edition of Chris Blow's boolc Airport passenger terminals have developed to be a major new publíc buildingtype representíng transportation in the late twentieth century. The funetional pianníng of facílities for aircraft and people. and the architectural forms to accommodate them.are of great interest to designers and the myriad of people who work ín, and visít, airports Jhe book is a discourse rather than a design guide. It is wraten for an international readership and illusírated from the author's experience. The reader is first given a review of airport design principles as they affect the design of terminál buildings. This is supported by features on London Gatwick's originál 1934 'beehive' terminál and hub terminals, designed for aírlínes to cater for passengers transferring between their flights, come in for speciaJ mention. The author recognizes the organic nature of modern technologically-deríved buildings with a taxonomy of recent airport terminals of seven principal forms, showing how these forms are each responsíve to the scale of the relevant operation and the demands of aircraft movement and passenger circulation. Knowing that the airport terminál sits between ground transport and air transport, the author gives detailed descriptions of ground transports needs at the terminál, the terminál building itself and the air transport's needs wfien on the ground at the terminál. There is a series of features on the re-deve!opmem of existing airport terminals, a pointer to the future facing many designs and new technology and larger aircraft Christopher Blow is a director of Scott Brownrígg & Turner Ltd, arthtieós with wide experience over cwenty years of the design of airport facílities. He has personally been involved in projects throughout the UK. Europe, the Míddle East the Far East and Africa Vissza