Our terminal – the Next Terminal – aims to express the airport’s one remaining certainty: movement. The next terminal is a reflection, not of things, but of relations between things. A celebration of the state of flux, true to the nature of terminals as infrastructures: facilitating not only circulation of passengers and airplanes, but of data, telecommunications, capital, commerce and energy. The next terminal reveals all.
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A series of parallel tubes simultaneously act as a roof and a series of connections, annulling any distinction between the two, creating both spaces to pass through and spaces to pass under. The tubes create a building with two radically different appearances. From the side (the approach of the terminal complex) they form a series of (classical) arches, from the front (the actual drop off) they appear as a series of stark, horizontal (modernist) lines.
The Next Terminal defies a definitive configuration. It is designed to solicit further evolution and adaptation, it makes the point that, when it comes to an airport, the only finite state possible is the state of anticipation.
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