Airport terminal in Gostomel

Project idea

The theme was chosen by using the legislation basis of the order of the state government of Ukraine about the renovation of the existing airport the Kyiv-Antonov airfield in Gostomel. The prescription describes the creation of a new runway and technopark. Building plot 25 kilometers northwest of Kyiv. The airport is used by Antonov Airlines and as a flight test base. My proposal consists of the airport terminal project and master plan. The project was created by using the next sources: State Construction Standards, albums of building structures, and manuals of creating airports and master plans.

Project description

The design of the terminal is based on the image of a plane taking off. The main volume is a parallelepiped with a cut-out part in the form of a hemisphere, which in the long run resembles the wings of an airplane, and its body is expressed in a volume slightly offset to the left of the center and embodied in a horizontally placed pyramid with a truncated eastward point.

Technical information

Internal load-bearing structures of the column, inter-floor are reinforced concrete. The trusses covering with vertical and horizontal connection. The foundation is a monolithic reinforced concrete slab on a pile field. The external walls are embodied by a light transparent hinged facade - framework from perforated profiles with glass folling. The facade is fastened woth a truss to the column.