Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 3 Area

Design Concept:
1. This terminal will be the first of a new generation, a highlight in the journey for new and seasoned travelers alike.
2. It will offer arriving passengers an equality of spatial experience to those departing – a true gateway to Taiwan.
3. It will offer an efficient, beautiful, spatial experience for all passengers, which prioritizes their health and wellbeing.
4. It will be easily adaptable to meet constant change without compromising its spatial qualities. Its underlying concept is generated from this constraint.
5. It is designed from the outset to recognize collective and individual priorities, such as allowing CIP and VIP passengers to fast track from curb to gate without compromising other passenger flows.
6. Its rational plan arrangement is forecast to deliver minimum connection times of just 40 minutes, the best in the region, with simple way-finding and airside connectivity.
7. It will accommodate airside retail that is benchmarked against the best in the world.

Our proposal is inherently simple in its concept. We propose a terminal that comprises a hard well defined outer shell, formed to protect, and within it a soft inner surface that is malleable and dynamic to celebrate and form the ever changing spaces below. Adjust both the nature of spaces whether grand, intimate, uniform or dramatic and the extent of those spaces too. This flexibility ensures the airport is always at its best and suitably presented as the principal gateway to and from Taiwan to the rest of the world.

First of the Next Generation of Airport Terminals:
Our proposal for Taoyuan T3 will be the first of a new generation that will respond directly to the passenger, making the process of using an airport less forbidding. If selected, this unique proposal will become a benchmark for the future, admired and copied around the world.

The petals following the line of the hard exterior shell. The petals are designed to respond to the senses, visually and aurally. They are all identical, they are each the height of a person with upstretched arm and arranged on a consistent grid. They each comprise a brightly finished tube and cone which give them depth when seen obliquely and to reflect light from the skylights above. The lower surface of each has a warm reflective finish and is perforated which, with acoustic absorption within, controls sound absorption in the spaces. Each petal is suspended and tied to its neighbours with theatre wire to prevent excessive movement in earthquakes.
During the daytime, when the natural light is sufficient, sunlight is encouraged to penetrate and be refracted by the petals. The petals can be artificially lit from above with daylight balanced circadian lighting.Each petal has a small LED fitting, which can be controlled to highlight its warm underside. We imagine these could be programmed for many functions from forming large pixelated images, to adding colour for festivals and even to respond to the flow of passengers moving through the spaces below.