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goon2019  
#1 Posted : Saturday, November 21, 2020 11:51:36 AM(UTC)
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New Design Horizons with Metal Fabric


Modern airport architecture is both challenging and prestigious. With rapidly increasing passenger numbers – 4.1 billion transported worldwide in 2017 alone – architects and designers of these high-profile projects are adapting to visitors’ needs by tailoring amenities and design accordingly. In the competition for attracting air travelers, airports are transforming a dated and utilitarian model of transportation to one that is more hospitality-driven, with sophisticated design and a full range of passenger offerings.To get more news about metal mesh fabric, you can visit boegger.net official website.

As airports continue to up the ante in traveler amenities, consumer expectations of airport offerings will also continue to rise. For airport owners and operators – which in the United States is made up almost entirely of federal, state and local governments – economic constraint is often a key factor in design decisions. To this end, rental income from retail, restaurant and other hospitality services like salons become indispensable when it comes to financing upgrades and new construction.

One element of this evolving design strategy is applying new product innovation to accomplish highly technical, functional yet elegant design solutions. Of the many products that are developing in advance of airport architecture, metal fabric as a material provides a range of design solutions for many areas of these complex transportation hubs. Whether it is an expansion and upgrade to meet consumer demand or regulatory requirements or altogether new construction, metal fabrics are becoming an established standard in global airport architecture.
In the mid-90s, a parking garage façade made of GKD metal fabric at Terminal II of Cologne Bonn Airport represented an architectural turning point for the design of transportation architecture. Used as parking garage cladding, GKD metal mesh allows proper ventilation, protection from the elements, and natural daylight illumination, while lending these large façades a particularly expressive and tactile materiality.

For example, some 27,000 square feet of LAGO fabric encapsulates the parking garage at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles. Large letters attached to the metal fabric form the word Flyaway, underlining the airport's brand identity. Parking garages at London Heathrow, as well as the airports in Barcelona, Brisbane and Madrid are also clad in GKD metal fabric.

This multifunctional material is also widely used on terminal exteriors. Airports such as Paris-Charles de Gaulle and London Stansted gain their singular look from metal fabric which also meets demands in energy efficiency, user comfort, and security. Spain's major airport, Madrid Barajas, enveloped two control towers with more than 17,000 square feet of ESCALE 7x1 stainless steel fabric. At Adelaide Airport in Australia, some 22,000 square feet of TIGRIS stainless steel fabric were used for the extended and slanted façade of a corridor connecting the terminal with the parking garage.

Recently, Newark Liberty International Airport applied 25,400 square feet of OMEGA 1510 stainless steel mesh as perimeter fencing for its transformer station. An etching process was used to apply a generous wave pattern to the fabric. Despite its graceful design, stainless steel mesh is highly resilient, withstanding adverse weather conditions and vandalism.
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