UNStudio discloses the design for the transfer terminal and air traffic control tower for Kutaisi Airport.The design for a new airport was unveiled by Dutch architecture office UNStudio: The architects will develop the design for new transfer terminal as well as the air traffic control tower for a new Georgian airport, the Kutaisi Airport, that is to serve domestic and international flights.
UNStudio was commissioned to create an airport design that incorporates both Georgia’s historic landscape and its architecture.
The architects developed a concept for a 4.000m2 terminal building as well as a control tower and offices with an additional 1.750m2 of floor area.
The terminal is to resemble pavilion that functions as a gateway: The building’s main feature will be a central transparent outdoor space accessible to departing passengers around which the flow of arriving and departing passengers will be organized.
UNStudio’s Kutaisi Airport will be used by international diplomats, national politicians and for tourism and is scheduled to open in 2012.
