China continues to revolutionize the architecture sector, be it for its eccentricities or its colossal works, it is paradise for architects and innovative studios.
The impressive Airport has just been inaugurated Beijing Daxing International , nicknamed "the star of sea". Artwork designed by the late Zaha Hadid and continued by the studio he founded, Zaha Hadid Architects, with the current director, Patrik Schumacher.
The new airport has become a construction iconic architectural figure that represents the new “power” that has acquired in recent years by China compared to other world superpowers.
With more than 700,000 square meters and built in less than five years at a cost of 120,000 million yuan (25 billion dollars), the airport forms about the size of 98 football fields.
Considered the most expensive and most technologically advanced terminal advanced of the world. It has become one of the airports largest in area aiming to be, in addition, the airport with the highest passenger traffic on the planet.
Guided by the principles of the most traditional architecture from china, the spaces are organized around a patio center consisting of four floors with five docks for aircraft that radiate directly outward to give the building the appearance of a starfish from the air.
The layout guides all passengers through the zones arrival, departure or transfer to your illuminated center of natural form where all the services are; the spaces of billing, the national and international counters or the shopping areas that are distributed among the different plants.
The interior is designed by Level 8 studio (Hong Kong) who planned the interiors as if he were designing a little city. In addition to duty-free shops and restaurants, has nurseries, hotels, work areas and various settings for public events.
The radial design structure allows park the planes directly at the airport with minimum distances to the center of the building providing a flexibility and exceptional comfort for passengers.
The radial shape ensures that you can access any boarding gate with record time , less than 8 minutes walking. Awesome! yes we compare airport controls. To deserve, also see the ingenuity of the study Zaha Hadid Architects before the protection against floods in Holland.
Technology is an important part of the airport with complex home automation, security and robotics systems for help passengers. In addition, the energy used by the airport is renewable based on photovoltaic solar panels provide a minimum capacity of at least 10MW.
The facts and figures that have been handled in its construction are really relevant and confirm both the magnitude of the airport as China's effort to impress the world integer:
The new airport is one of the largest development projects infrastructure initiated by the country's president, Xi Jinping, in an effort to boost the slowdown in the Chinese economy and put Beijing firmly on the stage international.
Actually, the new airport is just the last chapter of the story of how China became the superpower of concrete in the 21st century. Since 2003, China has dumped more cement every two years than the United States in the entire century XX (See article on how concrete contaminates the planet).
China is already home to the world's largest concrete structure world: the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze River. The "new Great Wall" of China, and its hydroelectric power station it is the largest in the world in terms of capacity.
Of course these megaprojects are impressive and enhance China's capacity to transform itself, although undoubtedly, there is an environmental cost, which certainly does not favor nobody.
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