Kansai International Airport was designed by Renzo Piano and Arup engineers, and built on a man made island off the coast of Osaka Bay, Japan in 1994. It is the longest airport in the world, measuring 1.7km in length along the main concourse. “Aesthetic, practical, economic and technical considerations combined powerfully in the design engineering of the Kansai main terminal building. Piano’s elegant, flowing design was driven by his belief that the building itself, the refraction of light through it and even the movement of air within it should reflect passengers’ movement from landside to airside, with a visual connection between the two.”39 The building’s sweeping form was also reminiscent of two long wings of aeronautical imagery; with an aerofoil shape tapering in height from the central hub to the outer edges, in order to help with sightlines from the control tower to the planes. Piano’s intention was that of a simple building to navigate, that was light, bright and spacious, built with low energy consumption in mind, as well as structural strength against the earthquake and typhoon prone region. The Kobe earthquake occurred within a year of the terminal’s opening, with an epicentre 20km away from the airport, yet it suffered no damage. The linear concourse, with the arrangement of arrivals and departures traffic combined, was investigated in this terminal, for the possible implication of a similar layout arrangement within my terminal, only to a considerably smaller scale.
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