Stansted Airport Roof Structure

Roof trusses creating the impression of a.

Stansted airport roof structure. Stylised swan in flight. The layout places all the building services including the baggage. Up lighting illumination and is the. Steel trees with branches cantilevered from a cluster of four columns support a flat roof of light steel sections and woodwool slabs.

How to find stansted airport. Supply air ducts rise between the columns. 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. The trunk structure contains the air conditioning ducts smoke filtering and other services.

On one side there was a road and on the other a field where aircraft landed into the wind. London stansted airport iata. The interior of the terminal is remarkably streamlined and free from pipes and ducts. Madrid barajas terminal 4 beijing airport they all follow in the footsteps of essex s finest.

Structure mechanical and illumination sir norman foster. Palais de congres four system combinations 8. Its roof with its skylights is a thing of considerable sculptural attractiveness. Stansted airport challenged all the rules of airport terminal design.

Egss is an international airport located at stansted mountfitchet england 42 mi 68 km northeast of central london. Structure envelope and services sir norman foster. Beneath the roof which is supported by structural trees the airport s main concourse is a large flexible naturally lit space. A space frame of inverted pyramid.

Structural engineer peter rice and. Stansted s running costs are half of those for any other british terminal. Structure envelope and construction process arato isozaki. Features a floating roof supported by.

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. The joint has been known as the jesus nut. Photo by mira66 via this flickr page. The basic cabin structure is a miniature version of the main structure.

It went back to the roots of modern air travel and literally stood conventional wisdom on its head. Utility pillar which provides indirect. Stansted set the template for all those airy bright terminal buildings that have come since. 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.

Structure services and illumination sir norman foster. The design pioneered the use of syphonic drainage on the perimeter of the roof.