Kaunas Airport Passenger Terminal

Three-level square building with external staircases. Total area of the building & 7.378 m2; volume & 49.221 m3; height & 14.30 m; 12 registration (check in) desks; parking for 648 cars with total area of 11.800 m2; estimate - approx. 19 million euros. This object is the first (the main) phase of passenger terminal out of the three stages planned in the future.

Site conditions: The new building is in the territory of the existing Kaunas airport, in Kaunas region, Karmelava settlement & 13 km northeast of the city of Kaunas, 500 m from the A6 highway. Design concept: The project concept: an illuminated magnified detail of some airplane engine mechanism. Airport is the gateway to a country of arrival or departure. The first impression about the country depends on our inventiveness of presenting ourselves.... We wanted to create a cosy, peaceful airport. The architectural concept is a functional simplicity, transparency of facades, moderate interior. We succeeded to implement about 90% of our ideas.

Materials: Facades: thermopanels with stone wool filling, Schüco glass aluminium systems. Exterior components: GKD steel woven facade net. Interior: Walls: open concrete and painted plasterboard. Ceilings: galvanized steel net. Floors: PVC Expona adhesive coating, an imitation of the smoked wood. Stairs: reinforced concrete structures covered with stainless steel sheets. Passenger registration equipment and desks: Vanderlande. Lamps: Eden design. Construction systems and materials: Site-assembled reinforced concrete and metal structures, foundation - bored.