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    The document discusses the design of the Beijing International Airport by Foster & Partners. It will be the largest airport in the world covering over 1 million square meters. Designed to initially handle 43 million passengers annually and later 55 million, the airport's massive size led designers to focus on improving the traveler experience with short walking distances. A single roof and colored skylights help passengers navigate and the architects considered sustainability with a system that reduces carbon emissions and solar-oriented skylights that keep the building cool.

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    The document discusses the design of the Beijing International Airport by Foster & Partners. It will be the largest airport in the world covering over 1 million square meters. Designed to initially handle 43 million passengers annually and later 55 million, the airport's massive size led designers to focus on improving the traveler experience with short walking distances. A single roof and colored skylights help passengers navigate and the architects considered sustainability with a system that reduces carbon emissions and solar-oriented skylights that keep the building cool.

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    China Reporte

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    Guillermo Delgadillo 4c1

    ENGLISH REPORT ABOUT CHINA’S


    ARCHITECTURE
    Beijing International Airport, Beijing
    The U.S embassy in china said that the country will be building 108 new airports between
    2008 and 2012, including the largest in the world: the Beijing International Airport,
    designed by Foster & Partners.It was set to open at the end of 2007, for the Beijing
    Olympics in 2008, the airport terminal will cover more than 1 million square meters, even
    bigger than the pentagon in the US or the coliseum in rome.

    It's designed to handle 43 million passengers a year initially and 55 million by 2015, this
    will probably make the new facility enter into the ranks of the top 10 bussiest airports.
    Given the scale and traffic that will come thru this airport, the designers focused on the
    traveler's experience, by making sure that walking distances are short, for example.

    Foster & Partner’s previous experience designing Hong Kong's new mega-airport and the
    massive Residential Lap Kok has helped them to plan better ways to improve beijing’s new
    airport, the Beijing terminal is housed under a single roof. This was made to help
    passengers distinguish between different sections because of the enormous size of the
    airport, skylights have different shades of yellow and red light across walls, this was
    intencionally made to act as a navigational aid. The architects also kept sustainability in
    mind: An environmental-control system reduces carbon emissions, and skylights situated
    on a south-east direction decrease solar heat, keeping the building cool.

    And that’s all for me , speaking about Beijing’s International Airport.

    REPORTING FROM BEIJING,CHINA.

    Guillermo Delgadillo...

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