Terminal 3 Beijing International Airport - Norman Foster.pdf

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Terminal 3 is a fourteen million sdollar complex of three volummile long north-south axis. Fostas the engineering arm, designeon schedule, in less than four yFosters chief executive, commestruction industry, the speed atis ten times faster. Though th

terminals is not new to Foster + designing them in the 1980s, they

jing. Upon receiving the job Fostin 10 days. The local collaborBeijing Institute of Architectural D

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Terminal 3 was designed for thetion Airport Company, Ltd. The having the largest footprint of aing, in the world. It is the rst exceed one million square metterminal became fully operatioThe journey from the check-in to15-20 minutes. The building w

regional materials. The construto 50,000 at its peak. The termincommodate 50 million passengecapacity for the year 2020. Futminal was considered in the desof the ceiling translucent ceilinthe grid emphasizes the longitudserving as a circulation guide toview are columns, which taper tThough structural, these column

verticality of the space.

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The deadline for completion cBeijing Olympics. The terminal, dal and efcient, acts a symbol oto digest. The roof swells, expothe form of a mythological dragearth. The buildings central axisancient Chinese cities. The depon separate levels. Arrivals clai

elers rst step foot on the south are greeted by a 150 ft. canopysides. A traditional imperial Chcents the columns supporting tcolumns are coated red, the ouyellow. Foremost, the buildingthe complexities of modern air plan maximizes the perimeter, wly compact and sustainable foconsists of the public space ab

spaces. The passenger is conneskylights. The building is compovolumes: in order, T3A (processinT3C (domestic gates), and T3B (underground train connects the


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The cross section diagram exhital, supporting the roof. Two colwhile a pair of slanted columns, terior, providing support on eachport a modular space truss roof of the ceiling in made of alumincan be seasonally adjusted to loads in the roof are horizontally

through reinforced concrete deand columns into a 38 foot coluearthquake prone Beijing, this systo be elastic. Members were indthe weight of the steel compon


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The prefabricated space trussebolted connections, while oneswere welded. Though hemisphwere planned, spherical connecthe space truss. 12


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These columns, located on thewall, are composed of metal ttubes form a hollow triangle. of the column to be located as possible, thus increasing its momtion the columns form an ideal vertically symmetric column risesat the vertical center the colum

design achieves the highest mvertical center. Also, the form othe sloping curve of the roof ofly shaped column can be founbuilding around the internationa

Elevation,Cross Section and Diagram


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Tapere

The tapered cross section is founture of the building. It can beramps of the building, as well as concourse road around the outssectional variation respects its bstress increases at the ends due with little moment at the ends ofcross section provides an unne

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A 150 long cantilever is formedbuilding. The cantilever consistsweb begins to increase in size robefore the cantilever. The webnear the origin of the cantilever.tilever the beams cross-section higher moment dictates the strumore massive. The section also

mentioned tubular, swollen colpered section deck supporting t

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