Istanbul New Airport. Rendering courtesy Grimshaw. The vaulted ceilings of the terminal will feature skylights to provide natural daylight within the check-in, security, passport control and retail areas. The layout of the building and the design of the terminal roof will enable easy wayfinding and bolster passenger movement.
Mavi Boncuk | Perkins+Will has been selected to design a mixed-use development adjacent to the Istanbul New Airport[1], reports ArchDaily.
The 1,700-acre (or 690-hectare) plan, named "Airport City," will have hotels, retail and commercial office space, a convention center, and metro rail connections to Istanbul and elsewhere. It will also contain a “central innovation district” and public space.
Perkins+Will is expected to design the center within the next four months so ground can break in 2016.
“The opportunity to lay the groundwork for a development of this magnitude is both a tremendous honor and responsibility,” said David Green, EMEA Urban Design Lead at Perkins+Will. “Istanbul’s new airport will serve millions of passengers, but its airport city will be key to capturing that vitality. Beyond simply supporting aviation, our plan will create a framework for a truly unique center of economic, cultural, and social life.
An airport city is a development model that organizes buildings, infrastructure, and transportation networks around an airport core, with the airport serving as primary economic driver for the surrounding area. The airport city beside Istanbul’s New Airport, which will be one of largest sites of its kind in the world, will also serve as the seed for future development along the Black Sea, Green added.
Cem Cakaralir, Deputy General Manager of IGA Havalimani Isletmesi AS, overseeing the Airport City development, said: “This is an unprecedented opportunity to launch the Istanbul New Airport as a global crossroads into Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It is an important investment for the future of Turkey.”
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Perkins+Will is also involved with the The Municipality of BayrampasaIstanbul, Turkey Project
[1] Istanbul New Airport will be constructed on an area of approximately 76.5m². It will comprise four terminals covering a total space area of 1.4m², 165 passenger boarding bridges, three technical buildings, eight control towers, six runways, 16 taxiways, and an apron area of 6.5m² with the capacity to accommodate 500 aircraft.The project will be carried out in four stages with an estimated budget of €12bn ($16.65bn). The first stage will enable the airport to initially serve 90 million passengers per year and is expected to be completed in 2018.Other project components under the first stage include the construction of 88 passenger boarding bridges, a covered car park with capacity for 12,000 vehicles, three independent runways, eight parallel taxiways, an apron covering four million square metres, cargo and other ancillary facilities.
Another runway and three additional parallel taxiways will be constructed as part of the second stage, while the third stage will involve the construction of a 500,000m² terminal building with the capacity for 30 million passengers, an additional apron and runway, and taxiways.
The final stage will involve the construction of an additional terminal building covering 340,000m² and handling up to 30 million passengers, another runway, parallel taxiways, and an apron.
The contract to build and operate the airport for 25 years was awarded to a consortium comprising of five local companies: Cengiz, Mapa, Limak, Kolin and Kalyon, which submitted the highest price bid of €22.152bn ($30.737bn) in May 2013. The contract for the design of Terminal One, to be constructed in the first stage, was awarded to a consortium consisting of Grimshaw, Haptic Architects and Nordic.
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