On one side there was a road and on the other a field where aircraft landed into the wind.
Stansted airport roof construction.
A fresh approach to the design of airport passenger facilities resulted in a groundbreaking building for the 1991 main terminal at stansted airport.
Photograph by ken kirkwood large expanses of glazing wrap the airport terminal to allow travellers to view.
The earliest airport buildings were very simple.
On one side there was a road and on the other a field where aircraft landed into the wind.
The earliest airport buildings were very simple.
The joint has been known as the jesus nut.
The energy efficient building lightweight roof and one level passenger experience has become a model for new terminals wordwide.
It went back to the roots of modern air travel and literally stood conventional wisdom on its head.
Stansted airport structure steel tube and cable modular unit as basis for building design services air supply and return located at these structural bays and integrated into design envelope premanufactured roof elements lifted whole onto the structural modules also notice the spoilers along the roof edge meant to redirect the.
Branches meet the roof structure diagonally braced by tension members attached by a single bolt to a cluster of pyramid shaped elements at the top of the trunk.
It went back to the roots of modern air travel and literally stood conventional wisdom on its head.
Stansted airport challenged all the rules of airport terminal design.