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The Forest Airport

Part 1 Project 2009
Andrea Vallejos
Aileen Steinman
Angelo Roco
Jessica Ortloff
 University of Chile | Chile
The Forest Airport
The place where accommodates the project, City of Temuco, Araucanía region, is characterized by its lush forests that flood mountains and hills filling the landscape. For this reason, the biggest challenge at the time of creating a proposal for airport was the way in which this natural landscape would be affected with a metal structure that would conflict with ambience saturated materials in natural state such as wood. This is how born the idea of using these beautiful forests, as configuration main: "the tree", main metaphor of the structure of the airport. As a starting point we take the structure of a real forest, taking their distances and making them consistent with the program and the material being used. The metaphor of the forest referred to use trunks and branches, as pillars and beams respectively, thus shaping a structural system which underpins the entire building. The cover design refer to the foliage of trees and thus achieve the same light as is input as a real forest clearings letting in the light on the internal spatial forest. This captures the effect of leaf shadows on the floor of the airport.
Finally the great objective of the airport is inserting in a natural context, without notoriously affect the landscape, making that this comes into mimesis with natural forests.



The project made for contest CAP 2009, by the students of 8° semester, was chosen like one of the projects to represent the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Chile in this competition.
The values that caused that the project was chosen are in their creativity where the proposal makes an analogy to the forest of the south of the country. The structure of the building is conceived by porches of steel that create an inner spatiality of great wealth through elements that symbolize steel trees. This structure this formed by normal pieces that when being united with others they form an artificial forest abstractly.
The zone of the first level appears in double height, and is the place of arrival of passengers of the city; in this place it is where the trees appear with all their force.
In the second level, it is located the zone of boarding, which balconies the first floor. Through small breaks covers allows the entrance of natural light and are valued elements that may be considered the "branches" of the tree.
The development of the project like the expression of him, is of great value, standing out the conception of the proposal.
The examining commission selected this project by the search and innovation of the use of the steel, considering especially the conditions in the area with an adequate response to the program of an airport.

Tutor(s)
Leopoldo Prat
2009
The Forest Airport
The Araucanía region, and the southern Chile, It´s characterized by abundant nature, gorgeous forests of leafy trees that fill the landscape and flooded their mountains and hills. Considering the real importance of this for his inhabitants and tourist tha
There are in the area two types of natural forests, the Araucarias forest, and the Roble-Rauli-Coigüe. These are characterized by possess certain structure either at the distances between tree to tree and the diameters and glasses of each of them. This de
Structural process 1 "The Forest" will shape through the union of multiple frames. 2 The frames are deformed and held together with steel rings. The diameters and dimensions of the "trees" are considered according allowing steel (2m). 3 In separate fram
Structural process As in the forest, the rays of light penetrate the cover. In the central area, it increases this light, coming to see the leaves of the trees. The cover goes down in his edges as surrounding forming the Foliage of the forest.
Structure Riversides Cover Program Skin Construction process
Location
Customs offices 1 International arrival 2 International police control 3 Withdrawal of national baggage 4 Withdrawal of international baggage 5 Customs 6 Arrival hall 7 Bathrooms 8 First aid 9 Store 10 Airlines offices 11 Baggage revision 12 X-ray baggage
International boarding 1 National boarding 2 Concesion area 3 Cafeteria 4 Access kitchen 5 Boarding’s cafeteria 6 Bathrooms 7 Offices 8 AVSEC control 9
The design of the cover is designed in the foliage of trees, penetrating scattered light inside the airport.
The structure plays the title role in the airport, is the continuation of the environment in the building spatiality.
View of the levels of the airport and its relation to the "tree" structure.
Cover slopes are due to water runoff rain by the rainy climate zone; on the other hand, this slope increases in the gate area making sense of the ascension of the airplanes.
The airport's location. The airport is shown towards the environment through the permeability of its glass facades that suggest what happens inside.
The building reveals its structure, shown as it stands,by what the program is retracted to the area of boarding, defining a large area that denotes the spatiality and lighting of "the forest".
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