Features
Retractable baggage consoles and immigration checkpoints
Interior and exterior plazas
Palette: Fireproof structural steel, glass, Ipe decking
Column-free design
Cantilevered up to 56 feet
Mixed structure: pleated roof and girder system
Computational Geometry / Questions
What do doubly-curved geometry represent?
“The challenge… is to try to understand these tools in a more sophisticated way
than as simply a new set of shapes…. Issues of force, motion and time… can now be
experimented with… [using] tools of gradients, flexible envelopes, temporal flows and forces”
Purported UV coordinate system for surface
Roof design iterations in conjunction with force/structural analysis
Move from spline to “complex” curves