RSHP

Taoyuan Airport T3

Date
2015 - under construction

Client
Taoyuan International Airport Corporation

Location
Taipei, Taiwan

Overview

The design for Taoyuan Terminal 3 synthesises the practice’s previous major airport experience with the specific brief. It has brought together the flexibility of the single span, loose fit volume of Heathrow Terminal 5 with the warmth and human qualities of the flowing interior spaces of Barajas Terminal 4. The result is a unique, dynamic and fluid architecture that allows for easy adaption and future transformation of airport functions without compromising the passenger experience or the architectural integrity.

The RSHP proposal is inherently simple in its concept. The design is inspired by Taiwan’s beautiful landscapes, the seas surrounding it, its rhythms of nature and life to create a series of unique interior places designed for their purpose and protected beneath an elegant hard shell roof. Within, a soft inner surface is malleable and dynamic to celebrate and form the ever changing spaces below.

The nature of the interior spaces whether grand, intimate, uniform or dramatic and the extent of those spaces too can be changed. This adjustable scaling will give passengers spatial clarity in all areas; large, small, busy or quiet, to reduce stress and improve wellbeing and comfort. This flexibility ensures the airport is always at its best and suitably presented as the principal gateway to and from Taiwan to the rest of the world.

This terminal will be the first of a new generation, a highlight in the journey for new and seasoned travellers alike. It will offer arriving passengers an equality of spatial experience to those departing. Its rational plan arrangement is forecast to deliver minimum connection times of just 40 minutes, the best in the region, with simple way-finding and airside connectivity.

Data

Team
Tadashi Arai, Paz Armenta, Bevan Badenhorst, Jaco Bam, Thomas Birtles, Pietro Bodria, Mafalda Brandao, Luca D'Amico, Kelly Darlington, Benjamin Darras, Jason Chang, Yuting Cheng, Jonathan Cruz, Jaime Cunha, Philip Dennis, Da Feng, Vidal Fernandez Diez, Kester Freeman, Tobi Frenzen, Amparo Galvan, Carlos García Criado, Christine Geneste, Nasir Ghani, Ben Goble, Lu-Min Guo, Lennart Grut, Nandi Han, Ivan Harbour, Katherine Hegab, Ed Hiscock, Jane Huang, David Kennedy, Hyun-Kyu Kim, Kinga Koren, Hari Kumar, Juan Laguna Roquero, Anthony Lau, James Leathem, Jack Leather, Chien-hui Li, Stephen Light, Addy Lin, Pei-Yi Lin, Roger Loh, Marcie Lu, Riccardo Mazzucco, Jon Mercer, Mariola Merino, Pedro Morales, Ben Morgan Jones, Colin Moriarty, Andrew Morris, Mark Ng, Matilde Napoleao, Sahar Navabakhsh, Alex Nicholls, Joseph Park, Shane Parker, Andrew Partridge, Carmen Peña, Katarzyna Penar, Joanna Pencakowski, Georgina Robledo Padilla, Rodolfo Rodriguez, Dan Rogers, Richard Rogers, Jose Roldan, Michael Rudko, Daniel Rusinski, Marian San Emeterio, Jia Jian Saw, Simon Smithson, Maria Taboada Moreno, Toby Tinsley, Angela Tobin, Simon Tonks, Chris Trundle, Andrew Tyley, Edward Walker, Ben Warner, Zoe Webber, Adeline Wee, Daniel Wright, Edward Wu, Sim Yee Lee

Date
2015 - under construction

Location
Taipei, Taiwan

Gross Area
640 000 m²

Co-Architect
Fei & Cheng Associates

Structural Engineer
CECI Engineering Consultants / Arup

Landscape Architect
Gillespies

Retail Architect
The Design Solution

Baggage Handling Consultants
BNP Associates

Aviation Services
Fraport

Transport Consultant
OTC

Data

Team
Tadashi Arai, Paz Armenta, Bevan Badenhorst, Jaco Bam, Thomas Birtles, Pietro Bodria, Mafalda Brandao, Luca D'Amico, Kelly Darlington, Benjamin Darras, Jason Chang, Yuting Cheng, Jonathan Cruz, Jaime Cunha, Philip Dennis, Da Feng, Vidal Fernandez Diez, Kester Freeman, Tobi Frenzen, Amparo Galvan, Carlos García Criado, Christine Geneste, Nasir Ghani, Ben Goble, Lu-Min Guo, Lennart Grut, Nandi Han, Ivan Harbour, Katherine Hegab, Ed Hiscock, Jane Huang, David Kennedy, Hyun-Kyu Kim, Kinga Koren, Hari Kumar, Juan Laguna Roquero, Anthony Lau, James Leathem, Jack Leather, Chien-hui Li, Stephen Light, Addy Lin, Pei-Yi Lin, Roger Loh, Marcie Lu, Riccardo Mazzucco, Jon Mercer, Mariola Merino, Pedro Morales, Ben Morgan Jones, Colin Moriarty, Andrew Morris, Mark Ng, Matilde Napoleao, Sahar Navabakhsh, Alex Nicholls, Joseph Park, Shane Parker, Andrew Partridge, Carmen Peña, Katarzyna Penar, Joanna Pencakowski, Georgina Robledo Padilla, Rodolfo Rodriguez, Dan Rogers, Richard Rogers, Jose Roldan, Michael Rudko, Daniel Rusinski, Marian San Emeterio, Jia Jian Saw, Simon Smithson, Maria Taboada Moreno, Toby Tinsley, Angela Tobin, Simon Tonks, Chris Trundle, Andrew Tyley, Edward Walker, Ben Warner, Zoe Webber, Adeline Wee, Daniel Wright, Edward Wu, Sim Yee Lee

Date
2015 - under construction

Location
Taipei, Taiwan

Gross Area
640 000 m²


Co-Architect
Fei & Cheng Associates

Structural Engineer
CECI Engineering Consultants / Arup

Landscape Architect
Gillespies

Retail Architect
The Design Solution

Baggage Handling Consultants
BNP Associates

Aviation Services
Fraport

Transport Consultant
OTC

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