Competition: Airfield Crovo Island
Airport Corvo - Azores / Portugal / 2011
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Concept: The new airport of the island of corvo should be interpreted as a dynamic and organic structure that fits with the morphology of the site and with its surroundings, embodying a contemporary/industrial identity.
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Context: The entity that commissioned the project required a building that would provide the airport of the island of Corvo with all of the technical components and necessary infrastructure, namely: terminal, storage area for airport equipment and firefighting and emergency services.
Programme: The project proposes that a new airport be built in the existing grounds through their extension in an eastern direction and the concentration of all services and support structures in one area. The objective is to make the new airport of the island of Corvo a notable and organic public space that has as its scenario the southern slopes of Vila do Corvo.
Strategy: Form and materiality acquire their identity through a trapezoidal metallic plate coating that is placed on the structures of the airport so as to emphasise the versatile character of curvilineal forms transmitting, in this manner, an aerodynamic design that remits us to the universe of aeronautics and round-the-world voyages.
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Context: The entity that commissioned the project required a building that would provide the airport of the island of Corvo with all of the technical components and necessary infrastructure, namely: terminal, storage area for airport equipment and firefighting and emergency services.
Programme: The project proposes that a new airport be built in the existing grounds through their extension in an eastern direction and the concentration of all services and support structures in one area. The objective is to make the new airport of the island of Corvo a notable and organic public space that has as its scenario the southern slopes of Vila do Corvo.
Strategy: Form and materiality acquire their identity through a trapezoidal metallic plate coating that is placed on the structures of the airport so as to emphasise the versatile character of curvilineal forms transmitting, in this manner, an aerodynamic design that remits us to the universe of aeronautics and round-the-world voyages.
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Concept: The new airport of the island of corvo should be interpreted as a dynamic and organic structure that fits with the morphology of the site and with its surroundings, embodying a contemporary/industrial identity. ´ Context: The entity that commissioned the project required a building that would provide the airport of the island of Corvo with all of the technical components and necessary infrastructure, namely: terminal, storage area for airport equipment and firefighting and emergency...
- Year 2011
- Main structure Mixed structure
- Status Competition works
- Type Airports
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