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Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport
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Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport
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Shenzhen stands at a crossroads. Already with an unsurpassable technology sector fueling the economic engine of China, the next great leap will be in ideas and services: Cultural Capital. Our vision is predicated on this future. The architecture for T3 Shenzhen Airport will epitomize intelligent environments; an architecture that embraces everything from life and work, to culture and ecology. Indeed the new terminal is poised to become the symbol of the new China. The “high-tech” architecture which has colonized emerging economies world-wide has had its day - a new architecture which resonates in culture, symbolism and an intelligent future has come to fore. The airport, perhaps the quintessential modern typology, has paradoxically found itself in a state of arrested development with the prevailing style being “high-tech”. An Architectural style emulating the aviation technology of the 1960’s, high-tech has since spread to become a worldwide cliché. Being the standard architectural response to the airport wherever one goes, this worn style speaks neither to the specifics of place nor to the specifics of experience. The spaces of high-tech are spatially and structurally homogeneous. We propose a 21st century paradigm. Instead of the bland monoculture of high-tech, we propose spaces for travelers that are locally diverse and unique yet globally coherent. These are spaces that humanize technology rather than merely represent it; spaces that are ultimately attuned to diverse needs, moods, and aspirations of the traveler. Consequently, we have fundamentally rethought the space of the Shenzhen Airport through the transmutation of a quintessentially earthbound material: concrete. Rather than the predictable pastiche of hi-tech materials, Shenzhen Airport will employ a traditional (modern) material concrete but fabricate it using the new conceptual paradigms in engineering and the technology of mass-customization in formwork and fabrication. The shift from standardized construction (Modernism) to mass customization will result in a range of architectural form, organization and effects for T3 impossible just a few years ago.
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