Woodhead is honoured to have Sydney Airport Terminal One shortlisted in the worlds premiere interior design awards competition.
Sydney Airport Terminal One, completed in 2010, has been selected as one of the top three transport projects (interiors) in the world at this years Inside Festival (part of the World Architecture Festival) and is vying for not only the Transport award, but also World Interior of the Year.
The Inside Festival celebrates the finest interiors and their creators. Through a series of curated events, talks, installations and a prestigious awards programme, Inside will be a vibrant platform for creative thought, mutual inspiration and idea exchange – capturing the design zeitgeist in style over two exciting days in Barcelona.
Woodhead is one of only five Australian firms to have been shortlisted in this years awards, within a total pool of 41 projects, across 9 categories and 35 countries. Categories range from the most prestigious new hotels and bars to civic spaces, offices and shops. In a nail-biting finale shortlisted entrants from each category will go head to head for the overall prize of World Interior of the Year live at the Festival.
“Inside is a unique opportunity to look at developments in interior design across a wide range of disciplines like health, hospitality and transport. The nature of our industry is changing and we now operate in an increasingly global market. With its inclusion of interior design projects from around the world, Inside gives great insight into interior design practice today”
Paul Priestman, Co-Director, Priestmangoode
The Sydney Airport Terminal 1 Redevelopment celebrates the joy of travel and articulates the importance of public spaces. Designed by Woodhead, the expansion of the departures level of the International Terminal encompasses a diverse range of activities within a main piazza ‘The Forum’ creating an integrated and dynamic passenger experience.
The Forum defines the travel experience as a civic place of dwelling, where travellers can pause and reflect on their journey. The creation of this space evolved into the heart of the terminal, producing a signature place of international quality which captures and embodies the light and spaciousness of Sydney.
The International Terminal is a key infrastructure asset for Sydney and handles about 45% of all of Australia’s international passengers. The design form ensures all passengers departing Sydney leave with a positive impression and enjoy a uniquely Australian experience.
The primary feature of the project is the central ‘Forum’. Modelled in a traditional piazza form, the Forum is the main shopping precinct for outbound passengers travelling through Sydney Airport Terminal 1.
The retail space is a large elliptical forum; 100m long and 35m wide, with 10m high walls supporting the expansive skylight. The forum provides passenger meeting and seating places, food and beverage offer and amenities, surrounded by variety of retail.
The predominantly solid façade of the ‘cloud walls’ provides a varied surface finish that reflects and refracts the light within the space. The wall finish creates a cloud-like enclosure replicating the open-air feeling experienced in an outdoor piazza. The materials used to achieve this experience are two-toned finished Compressed Fibre Cement sheeting, Zincalume sheeting, and Perspex sheeting all set within metal trimming.
The Forum also uses displacement/convection air-management systems for passenger comfort and reduced energy expenditure.
The elliptical skylight, measuring 77m long by 23m wide, is the key component of the forum design. With the forum being a column free space, the skylight is framed on a large primary grid with a lattice of skylight steelwork below the glass.
The large louver blades are designed to provide as much natural light as possible while minimising the amount of direct sunlight that interfaces with retail and food and beverage tenancies, yet also reducing the need for artificial lighting in the daytime.
The aesthetic design for the Terminal 1 expansion features a selection of standard finishes and materials which are easily available for duplication in future expansions, and mirror those use in previous terminal upgrades in Terminal 2. This ensures consistency throughout the terminals ‘look and feel’. These materials are simple and minimise the use of complicated and expensive custom items.
The clean materials and colour pallet applied to the redevelopment projects allows for specialty retail and food and beverage concessions to flourish in the forum retail environment.
The upgrade and expansion of the International Terminal 1 involved:
- adding 7,300 square metres to the departures level to provide world class passenger facilities including; single focused airside retailing environment featuring a naturally conditioned market-style “Forum” for passengers dwell time,
- centralised outbound immigration and security control,
- single focused landside food-court and retailing environment,
- a new outbound and early baggage handling system
- additional and upgraded aeronautical facilities including aerobridges, aircraft parking and taxiway improvements to accommodate a wider range of aircraft
- redevelopment of approximately 30,000 square metres of the existing departures level including new seating throughout
- an additional 120 metres of moving walkways
- improved way-finding signage and upgrades to bathrooms, ceiling and floor finishes.
- provision of premium check-in and processing facilities,
- increased airline lounge facilities, all designed in line with the parallel programs allowing A380 aircraft provisions.
- Environmental initiatives include the use of recycled water for toilet flushing and in cooling towers, and energy efficient displacement air-conditioning in the Forum retail space.
- Woodhead worked collaboratively with Connell Wagner’s façade engineer and ESD consultants Cundall to develop the make-up of the skylight and validate the solar impact on the public space below.
Key skylight features:
- 36mm double glazed IGU with solar e interlayer and argon filled cavity
- Natural anodised glazing suit
- 2,000 x 300mm elliptical louvre blades
- Blades prevent sunlight from hitting shopfronts for 99.6% of the year and from hitting the floor for 99.1% of the year
For further information please visit www.insidefestival.com
