Stansted Airport Roof Structure

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Stansted airport roof structure. Structure services and illumination sir norman foster. Stansted s running costs are half of those for any other british terminal. Palais de congres four system combinations 8. Photo by mira66 via this flickr page.

The basic cabin structure is a miniature version of the main structure. Utility pillar which provides indirect. Stansted airport challenged all the rules of airport terminal design. The joint has been known as the jesus nut.

Madrid barajas terminal 4 beijing airport they all follow in the footsteps of essex s finest. Four steel columns make up the tree trunks from which four branches meet the roof structure diagonally braced by tension members attached by a single bolt to a cluster of pyramid shaped elements at the top of the trunk. London stansted serves 200 destinations across europe the middle east and africa. It went back to the roots of modern air travel and literally stood conventional wisdom on its head.

Beneath the roof which is supported by structural trees the airport s main concourse is a large flexible naturally lit space. Structure mechanical and illumination sir norman foster. Steel trees with branches cantilevered from a cluster of four columns support a flat roof of light steel sections and woodwool slabs. The interior of the terminal is remarkably streamlined and free from pipes and ducts.

Stansted is a base for a number of major european low cost carriers being the largest base for low cost airline ryanair with over 130 destinations. The layout places all the building services including the baggage. Stansted set the template for all those airy bright terminal buildings that have come since. Structure envelope and construction process arato isozaki.

Egss is an international airport located at stansted mountfitchet england 42 mi 68 km northeast of central london. Structure envelope and services sir norman foster. Roof trusses creating the impression of a. The base of each truss structure is a.

On one side there was a road and on the other a field where aircraft landed into the wind. Its roof with its skylights is a thing of considerable sculptural attractiveness. Up lighting illumination and is the. A space frame of inverted pyramid.

The design pioneered the use of syphonic drainage on the perimeter of the roof. The earliest airport buildings were very simple. The trunk structure contains the air conditioning ducts smoke filtering and other services. How to find stansted airport.

Structural engineer peter rice and. Allowing for relatively easy redeployment of internal space the high roofed structure which is a floating roof supported by a custom designed space frame of inverted roof trusses makes use of indirect lighting and natural light for a calming effect.