Incheon International Airport Passenger Terminal

Incheon
Glass-enclosed elevated walkway spans across an empty, sunlit airport concourse, supported by pillars and glass balustrades; reflective tiled floor mirrors the arched steel-and-glass ceiling and distant escalators.
Project Info
  • Client: Fentress Architects
  • Owner: Seoul International Airport
  • Project Cost: $1,300,000,000
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This 6 million SF passenger terminal is built on a man-made land bridge between two islands in the Yellow Sea. Incheon’s 46-gate, arc-shaped terminal is South Korea’s largest building, serving up to 100 million passengers annually. Involved in Phase I, Martin/Martin designed the lenticular trusses in the terminal and the cable-stay pagoda roof in the concourses. Repetitive structural design offered significantly reduced construction time and costs and was activated as a visual element whenever functionally possible.

Central pair of escalators (object) ferry a few people upward (action) inside a vast glass-and-steel airport atrium with arched skylight, glass elevator shaft and reflective polished floor (context). Legible text: "Marcopolis". Other blue directional signage is present but text is too small to read.
Passengers sit and wait on rows of benches, some with luggage or walking, inside a spacious airport terminal lined with tall slanted glass windows and polished wooden floors.
Curving metal canopy shelters waiting shuttle buses along illuminated airport terminal lanes at night; visible signage reads "4" and "5".
Curved airport terminal complex serving multiple parked commercial aircraft at gates, surrounded by runways, aprons, extensive parking lots, roadways and distant hills under a clear blue sky.
Glass-walled airport concourse curved left, sunlight streaming through grid windows and reflecting on the glossy floor; potted trees and blue signs stand by the tarmac. Text found: A

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