Michaela Schornstein
Mönchengladbach Airport. FH Aachen (Germany)
Conception
The transport network should be comprehensible for the passenger. The way from the terminal on the landside to the gates on the airside is supposed to be noticeable for the departing passenger without signage. The passenger attains through the separating massive block directly into the duty free area on the airside and from there into the tube containing the departure gates. The arriving passenger experiences the way through the inner glazed tube along the departure gates and is likewise guided through the massive block from the airside to the landside. Because of the permanent visual connection either to airfield or the terminal the passenger does not loose orientation in any spot of the building.
Construction
The terminal building will be separated into air- and landside by the massive block as a skeletal framing with steel-concrete-composite construction. The large span of the three-dimensional framework binder in the roof construction and the configuration of the V-sustainers outside of the building allows a sustainer-free, flexible usable area, illuminated by the rooflight dome in the range of the framework beams and the space limiting point supported glazed facades. To avoid rivalry between the steel rib construction of the tube and the actual terminal building the south half is provided with a smooth Alucobond-covering. In northward direction the building opens to the airfield. The steel ribs structure of the bended glazed facade, which provides the passenger a view onto the airfield and the departing and arriving planes in the sky.
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