Kaunas Airport Passenger Terminal

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Kaunas Airport Passenger Terminal, Kaunas, Lithuania, Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners

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Project year: 2008
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Address: Oro uosto g. 4, KAUNAS, Lithuania
Latitude/Longitude: 54.96716511192369,24.073784457724763

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Terminal is designed as the first part of the future big terminal. Provides a construcive there is an opportunity to expand the building on both sides, depending on the needs. Aesthetics of the terminal is like a part of a hugde mechanism.

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Despite the fact that in terminal acts the customs border control, flight security, police, medical services and commercial, food and financial companies, the function scheme of a building is very simple and clear. The passengers wont experience the additional stress, wich leads in traveling by aircraft.

© G. Česonis

Inside the neutral ascetic glass, metal, concrete interior, which is adorned with the only bright detail-huge illuminators in departure and arrival halls.

Structure and materials

  • The constructive of a building is sectional monolithic reinforced concrete frame
  • Metal truss
  • SCHUCO aluminum glass facade system
  • SANDWICH tipe mineral wool thermal panels
  • PVC roofing PROTON GT
  • GKD rustless woven steel net
  • VANDERLANDE registration tables and luggage transportation equipment
  • SHINDLER elevators and escalators
  • PVC heterogeneous floring EXPONA
  • EDEN illuminators
  • Metal, welded wire mesh suspended ceiling
  • Monolith impregnated reinforced concrete decoration in interior
  • Gaseous tail heating
© G. Česonis
© G. Česonis

Awards

  • The project was nominated for the competition European Union Prize For Contemporay Architecture in the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009 exhibition.
  • Diploma of the exhibition of the Lithuanian Architects’ Union, Kaunas branch – competition Architecture: Kaunas 2008 for the implementation of public project Passenger Terminal of Kaunas airport in Karmėlava, Kaunas region. 2008
  • Nomination of Archiforma magazine for Passenger Terminal of Kaunas airport in Karmėlava, Kaunas region. 2008

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Site area: 504976m2
Building area: 7378m2
Project team: G.Natkevičius, J.Skalskytė, M.Mickevičius, G.Čepurna

Contributed by Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners