Gateway to Baku - The steel and glass building envelope of the new airport terminal in Azerbaijan

摘要

The new terminal building was opened at the Baku airport (Azerbaijan) for flight operations. Developed in collaboration with an international team of planners project shows the challenges that need to be tackled when building in the region. The present article presents the development process for the geometry and the structural concept, with special emphasis on the severity of the seismic load and its consequences on the design of the tolerance concept for the building envelope. Furthermore, a presentation is made of the particularities of the complex fabrication and installation processes that made the realization of such a challenging geometry out of a steel-glass structure possible.