Dubai International Airport, Terminal 3 - Architect ADPi

Dubai International Airport, Terminal 3 - Permasteelia group - Architect ADPi

Type/Technology
> Glass Façade
> Tension Cable Structure

Project Feature
The terminal building is approximately 1 km long and shaped as an aeroplane wing. The 84 individual glazed façades along the terminal, the so-called “teardrops”, and the 2 sloped cable walls at either end of the building, are point fixed glazed. The basis of every glass façade is a network structure of vertical and horizontal steel tension rods (vertical: 12 mm, horizontal: 24 mm). The glazed façades are closed at the bottom with a lattice girder that acts as a spring in the structure.

Scope of Work
35,000 sqm (376,700 sq ft) of glazed tension rod system.

Developer
Government of Dubai, Department of Civil Aviation

Contractor
Al Habtoor / Murray & Roberts / Takenaka, a Joint Venture

Façade Consultant
Dar Al-Handasah

Fonte: Permasteelisa