Considering seismic and meteorological conditions in Acapulco, we proposed the construction of a new terminal building, with a design whose facilities were able to deal with this type of seismological and meteorological events, allowing with these measures mitigate the impact of these phenomena and provide a better service for Air Transport users.
The development of the project involves two stages, a first growth plan toward the north side of the existing building with the aim of covering a program to serve 1.0 million passengers. Once finished the first stage of growth, a second growth plan is proposed with the demolition of the existing building and expansion of the new terminal on the location of the original building reaching a 2.0 million passengers capacity.
We proposed a program of specific requirements for the first stage, in the same way we delimited the facings of the building to the land side and air side in their approach to the Aviation platform. The project includes contact positions and remote locations and the analysis and solution of passenger flows in domestic and international departures and arrivals, baggage flows, employees and suppliers.
Solving weather conditions for the new project, as well as developing passive strategies of energy saving that were efficient, were the main catalysts of our proposal, where we sought to reduce the heat gain dramatically into the building by designing a ventilated cover that functions as a thermal buffer allowing the wind flow inside of it.
The warm air inside the building rises naturally and with the assistance of air conditioning injection at the bottom of the building, enters the cover where naturally ventilated. A column of facilities arranged longitudinally, allows hiding air conditioning units and arrange them efficiently along the building, as well as capture 100% of rainwater for reuse, among other strategies.
The opening of the project to the view of the platform on the air side and the ambulatory to the land side, and the rational solution of the operating part that allows an intuitive understanding of passenger flows both arrivals and national and international departures, were the guidelines we had as a design hub.
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