Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has gained a global architectural competitors to design the brand new arrivals terminal at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania.
Lithuanian Airports mentioned it would enhance Lithuania’s place as a gateway to the Baltic area whereas assembly predicted progress in passenger demand.
Lithuanian transport minister Eugenijus Sabutis mentioned the previous terminal had “lengthy since ceased to satisfy in the present day’s wants or the airport’s future capability and imaginative and prescient”.
“Because the gateway to Lithuania, the terminal creates the primary impression for everybody arriving into the nation,” he added.
“The very prime quality of concepts within the design competitors proposed essentially the most fashionable, handy options that may adapt to the airport’s future necessities.”
Lithuanian Airports chief government Simonas Bartkus mentioned ZHA’s terminal can be “a superb enterprise card for all guests”.
It’s going to deal with as much as 10.6 million passengers a 12 months.
Aiming for BREEAM Wonderful
ZHA mentioned the design attracts from the rhombus, a kind of parallelogram with which means in Baltic folklore.
It’s going to combine with the airport’s ongoing improvement as a multi-modal transport hub, and can embody a high-speed rail station for the deliberate Rail Baltica megaproject.
Its pleated roof will probably be completed in timber from native forests. Rhomboid and triangular skylights will let pure gentle in.
ZHA mentioned the design goals for a BREEAM Wonderful ranking, with passive design options mitigating summer season warmth acquire and a double-insulated glazing system mixed with hybrid pure and good air flow methods that be taught each day passenger flows and modify robotically to scale back power consumption.
A 13,000-sq-m photo voltaic array will go on the roof. Rain and greywater will probably be filtered and saved.
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