International Terminal/拉尔夫·约翰逊

发布于：2023-05-18 21:49:16

设计师：拉尔夫·约翰逊

位置：美国芝加哥

分类：交通建筑

内容：实景照片

图片：24张

O‘Hare International Airport, Chicago 1989-1993

Tin; International Terminal accommodates all foreign airline departures and all international arrivals with a 21-gale facility. Three levels contain departure gates, a ticketing pavilion, concessions, support facilities, a train station, and Federal Inspection Services for arriving passengers. Departures are on the upper level, arrivals on the lower level, and baggage handling, mechanical services, and other airline support spaces at the midlevel space at grade.
Sited at the entrance to the airport along a major freeway running east-west, the 800-foot-long arc of the ticketing pavilion establishes a new entry scale and image for the O‘Hare complex. The terminal interior is a linear sequence of hierarchically linked, self-contained spaces designed to enhance the sense of movement and transition for the arriving or departing passenger. From the ticketing pavilion on the upper level, a broad corridor flanked by concessions leads
west to a central security checkpoint and to the boarding concourse wings. Three shedlike forms on the freeway side at midlevel house the people mover station, which links the terminal to the rest of the airport. Stairs and elevators link this station to the upper-level ticketing hall and lower-level arrival area. The control tower on the runway side acts as a structural fulcrum for both the interior and exterior composition.
The terminal recalls bridges and the airport infrastructure that surrounds the traveler arriving by automobile. It also suggests an aircraft wing with its smooth, taut exterior and skeletal, delicate interior. Ceiling planes are independent of the structural system, alternately engaging and detaching from the structure in sinuous shapes that exaggerate the sense of movement.