Warsaw-based architects Are have designed a new terminal building for Lublin International Airport in Poland.

The airport extension and renovation was designed in collaboration with Sener Ingenieria y Sistemas in Poland and Spain, and Polconsult.

The project is due for construction in 2012.

The following is from Are:

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Competition for the renovation of the Lublin International Airport in Poland - First prize.

Description:

These days airports have become the showcase for a city or region, emerged as gates to local realities. Dynamism and frankness of Lublin region were the issues to express during the design process.

We gained inspiration from aero-dynamic solutions for airplanes and disposition of air currents on the competition site. These were taken under consideration during the design process and emerged as an elegant pillow-like structure.

We placed the first phase of airport buildings along the planned runway lane to create a stripe of buildings. On the perpendicular axis of the stripe we placed a central component of the design - Terminal building. The railway station, connecting the terminal with the city, was designed as a part of the terminal itself with the access situated on the extension of the lateral axis.

Such an arrangement provided a logical division of circulation around the terminal to the arrival and departure zones with the railway placed in between. It also allowed distribution of all required functions on a single level.

Parallel situation of buildings and the runway allows the future expansion of the terminal and the airport itself.

Road access to the Terminal is provided with two one-way road junctions serving separately the arrival and departure zones.

The main high capacity building is the terminal building. It was designed as a three-wing hall containing both functional zones: the airside zone, enclosing luggage sorting plant, waiting rooms and luggage claim hall with all accompanying rooms as well as the landside zone enclosing check-ins, railway station and commercial facilities like airline offices and gastronomy etc.

Sizes and parameters for the Terminal were assumed in accordance with IATA guidelines and counted for the capacity of 1 million passengers for the first stage and 3,2 million passengers terminally.

Lublin Airport
CLIENT/DEVELOPER: Port Lotniczy Lublin S.A.
LOCATION: Lublin, Poland
AREA: TERMINAL: 17.345 mq
CONTROL TOWER: 2.114 mq
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING: 901 mq
PROGRAMME: airport renovation and expansion

Design team (Polish-Spanish consortium):

SENER INGENIERIA Y SISTEMAS S.A.
ARE Sp. z o.o.
SENER Sp. z o.o.
POLCONSULT Sp. z o.o.

Design team members:

SENER INGENIERIA Y SISTEMAS S.A.
(technical coordination, airport master plan, functional project of terminal, calculate of buildings area and number of parking places)

inż. lotn. Francisco José Rodriguéz Angelina
mgr inż. Karol Cichecki
inż. lotn. Fernando Mosquera Martinez
inż. lotn. Gorka Agustín González Iraeta
inż. lotn. Pablo Querol Suquia
inż. lotn. Nestor Matabuena Durango

ARE Sp. z o.o.
(architectural design of the terminal building, flight control tower, administration building and airport maintenance facility building, graphical presentation)

arch. Jakub Wacławek
arch. Grzegorz Stiasny

arch. Tomasz Starczewski
arch. Adam Kluczek
arch. Krystyna Godlewska
arch. Aleksander Krauze
arch. Izabela Bartosik
arch. Bartosz Świniarski
arch. Maksym Tkacz
tech. arch. Rafał Lichota

SENER Sp. z o.o.
(parking and airport circulation system, coordination of work)

mgr inż. Piotr Szczepański
inż. lotn. Lope Seco González
arch. Marcin Tomaszewski
mgr inż. Piotr Rebajn
mgr inż. Bernard Kendra
mgr inż. Tomasz Gutkowski
mgr inż. Jacek Chamioło

POLCONSULT Sp. z o. o.
(runway infrastructure)

mgr inż. Ryszard Zaremba
arch. Janusz Stanisław Targowski
mgr inż. Zygmunt Kulesza