A new international
airport in the city of Odessa
for 3000 passangers per hour
The need for a new airport has risen
as city residential area approached towards an existing one, with several
city-plan variants claiming the area for habitation. A unique spatial
organization of the city of Odessa in a form of
several urbanized regions along the cost of the Black Sea
separated with vast industrial area of Peresyp allowed placement of the
projected airport in an intermediate zone between two most populated cores, an
insight well back-upped with wind analisys. Main pros were:
- relative closiness to the city to minimize travel time;
- stretching of landing corridors over industrial
zone to save habitation areas
from noise and any kind of air incident;
- abundance of railway lines in industrial zone allowed
construction of airport railway station for civil and cargo transportation use
connected to Odessa
central station and sea terminal.
The main body of an airport terminal is organized in T-shape with "wings" for domestic,
international and transit operations joint to a "core". Each
"wing" has a linear
development, providing shortest routs for a given passanger as well as
allowing a simple "grow" option to handle intensified future
operations.
The concourse is covered with rigidly suspended
skeleton structure enclosed in translucen
tent, with air bubble inside acting as thermal insulation. A
system of solar-driven air
ventilation ("air
chimney") is envisioned for summer times.
The air traffic control tower rests at one straight and one
console supports, with stiffness
triangles of rigid struts/bracings
combos.
Architectural and structural
decisions were inspirated by engineering works of an aviation pioneer Louis Bleriot. In memory of him.