Challenging the usual practice of making airports generic buildings lacking the personality of their cities, this one offers travelers a large space where a series of linked domes alludes to Seville’s architecture. With a landscaped parking lot that softens the transition from one means of transport (the automobile) to another (the airplane), the airport acts as a conveyor belt between highways and roads, on the one hand, and between take-off and landing strips, on the other. Indeed, anyone interested in this airport should examine the roof plan, which explains and expresses its architecture like no other graphic document of the project. Seville’s airport proves that a parking lot need not be a hostile place; if there is a city where it makes sense to make a parking lot a garden, that city is Seville, whose streets abound in orange and palm trees. An example of mat-building, this work is proof that the principles associated with Team X remain valid.
Airport in zone outside Seville next to the Highway E-05 Córdoba-Sevilla.
Autonomous Organization of National Airports.
Airport
Rafael Moneo
Emilio Tuñón (architect)
Luis Moreno (architect)
Aurora Fernández (architect)
Fernando Iznaola (architect)
Vicente Alvarez (Aeronautic engineer)
Francisco González Peiró (Quantity surveyor)
Enric Satué (signage design)
Structural engineer: Mariano Moneo Vallés
Mechanical Engineer: Intecsa
Lighting: Control y Aplicaciones, S.A.
Furniture Design: Moneo Studio in collaboration with AKABA (Mobiliario/)
Consultants: Novotec y Prointer
Dragados y Construcciones
78.131.573 €
61.940 m2
Preliminary design: 1987
Working drawings 1988
Construction start: 1989
Inaguration: 1992
