Stansted Airport Roof Structure

It went back to the roots of modern air travel and literally stood conventional wisdom on its head.

Stansted airport roof structure.

How to find stansted airport. Structure services and illumination sir norman foster. Allowing for relatively easy redeployment of internal space the high roofed structure which is a floating roof supported by a custom designed space frame of inverted roof trusses makes use of indirect lighting and natural light for a calming effect. Stansted is a base for a number of major european low cost carriers being the largest base for low cost airline ryanair with over 130 destinations.

Stansted s running costs are half of those for any other british terminal. Structure mechanical and illumination sir norman foster. Steel trees with branches cantilevered from a cluster of four columns support a flat roof of light steel sections and woodwool slabs. Utility pillar which provides indirect.

Palais de congres four system combinations 8. Supply air ducts rise between the columns. Stansted set the template for all those airy bright terminal buildings that have come since. A space frame of inverted pyramid.

Beneath the roof which is supported by structural trees the airport s main concourse is a large flexible naturally lit space. The interior of the terminal is remarkably streamlined and free from pipes and ducts. Features a floating roof supported by. Roof trusses creating the impression of a.

The basic cabin structure is a miniature version of the main structure. Its roof with its skylights is a thing of considerable sculptural attractiveness. Photo by mira66 via this flickr page. Structure envelope and construction process arato isozaki.

Four steel columns make up the tree trunks from which four branches meet the roof structure diagonally braced by tension members attached by a single bolt to a cluster of pyramid shaped elements at the top of the trunk. Stansted airport challenged all the rules of airport terminal design. Stylised swan in flight. The joint has been known as the jesus nut.

Egss is an international airport located at stansted mountfitchet england 42 mi 68 km northeast of central london. London stansted serves 200 destinations across europe the middle east and africa. Up lighting illumination and is the. On one side there was a road and on the other a field where aircraft landed into the wind.

The base of each truss structure is a. The earliest airport buildings were very simple. Structure envelope and services sir norman foster. The layout places all the building services including the baggage.

Structural engineer peter rice and. London stansted airport iata.