The official citation for the award that the NC STATE UNIVERSITY College of Design Airport Studio won in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale was: The Board of the European Cultural Centre selected the NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Design as recipient of the ECC Best Architecture University Award 2018 for its exhibit: Future Airports: Global Design Thinking The Award was given to NCSU for contributing to the research, highlighting the significance of airport space and the value of the experiential journey. The College of Design expresses its deepest gratitude to Curt Fentress, Joshua Stephens, Ana-Maria Drughi, Zahra Mirian, and Agatha Kessler of Fentress Architects for co-teaching this studio, which provided an extraordinary educational experience for our NCSU students. NCSU was chosen for this award from the following 58 Universities exhibiting at the Biennale: AUD American University Dubai (AUE) American University of Beirut (LBN) Anahuac University (MEX) Academy of Architecture Amsterdam (NOL) China Southwest University Nanjing (CHN) Chinese University of Hong Kong (HKG) Chongqing University (CHN) Universita’ Degli Studi Di Firenze (ITA) ENSA STRASBOURG (FRA) Ensa Strasbourg (FRA) Universidade De Evora (PRT) Singapore University of Technology and Design Suto (SGP) ETH (CHE) University of New South Wales (AUS) Universidad Catolica De Santiago De Guayaquil (ECU) Laurentian University (USA) California College of the Arts (USA) Swinburne University of Technology (AUS)
Deakin University (AUS) Tulane University (USA) Pratt Institute (USA) Yale University (USA) The Cooper Union (USA) University of Oklahoma (USA) Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (COL) University of Patras (GRE) PennDesign: University of Pennsylvania School of Design (USA) Ravensbourne University London (GBR) Southeast University Seu (CHN) Szechenyi Istvan University (HUN) Stanford University (USA) Ariel University (ISR) Istanbul Bilgi University (TUR) Ideal Spaces Working Group (GER) Kisd Koln International School of Design (GER) Lawrence Technological University (USA) Manchester School of Architecture (GBR) Monash University (AUS) Hong Kong University (HKG)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT (USA) City College of New York City (USA) New York Institute of Technology (USA) Renaessler Polytechnic Institute (USA) University of Virginia (USA) Parsons School of Design (USA) Syracuse University (USA) Tongji University (CHN) Tu Delft (NDU) University of Cincinnati (USA) University at Buffalo (USA) Universidad Catolica Del Norte (CHL) Universidad Internacional Sek (ECU) University College Dublin (IRL) Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (MEX) Victoria University of Wellington (NZL) University of Arkansas (USA) Georgia Tech (USA) North Carolina State University (USA) Confluence Institute (FRA) Lebanese University Lu (LBN)
The NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Design would like to express its appreciation to the EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE for making this magnificent cultural opportunity available to the world. This is a truly visionary endeavor for which we are deeply grateful. The ECC Staff worked very hard and gave wonderful support throughout this process.
We were honored to be a part of it. Made possible thanks to our generous sponsors: Vernon F Shogren Endowment Fentress Architects Lysaght & Associates Williard Stewart Architects, PA LS3P Eliane Lopes Chuck and Greer Lysaght Wayne Place Mark Williard Jeffrey Floyd Bill and Tess O’Brien Michael Tribble Terry and Julia Yeargan DPR Construction Special thanks for your continued support: Michael Landguth, A.A.E. Bill Sandifer, A.A.E. Robert D. Teer, Jr.
Airport Studio, College of Design, North Carolina State University
ARC 503 AIRPORT STUDIO INVITED TO VENICE! 5TH YEAR of the Airport Studio Spring Semester
Good precursor for the studio: ARC 590 GEOMETRY OF STRUCTURE ARC 630 INDEPENDENT STUDY
Airport design is a grand opportunity for our students. Airports set the initial impression of the city for most visitors and they are often the single most important representation of the cities that they serve. Airports challenge designers to come up with the poetic idea of space that will leave a lasting positive impression on the public. Long-span spaces help visitors “breathe” and assist in way-finding. Grand spaces present structural challenges and daylighting opportunities that can enrich and provide inspiration for the design concept. Airports are very challenging to design, being both functionally complex and technologically sophisticated.
Airport design is very consistent with the theme of the 2018 Architecture Biennale, which is, ‘Freespace,’ a word that describes a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the core of architectures agenda, focusing on the quality of space itself. This year’s studio class has also been crafted to the international venue by having each student team design their airports for different locations around the planet. As a part of this process, the design teams are doing background research on the culture, climate, and terrain of the location that they chose. In addition to the themes of Freespace and globalism, the students are considering future evolution in air flight. The studio has been taught for the last five years by Professor Wayne Place in conjunction with Fentress Architects, the designers of many world famous international airports, including Raleigh-Durham International Airport Terminal 2, the new Tom Bradley Terminal in Los Angeles, and the Inchon Airport, which has been voted for several years running the best airport passenger experience in the World. The students have a great opportunity to engage with Curt Fentress and other key members of his staff, all of whom are focused on airport design. This provides our students with profoundly rich, real-world learning experiences and opportunities to make connections with professional mentors.
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Airport Studio, 2013 College of Design, North Carolina State University NEW YORK CITY: HYPER-SONIC AIRPORTS Joshua Stephens Spring 2013
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sleep box food services high end restaurants retail&service strip multiuse local roomstores selected retail conference selected sleep retail box spa high end restaurants art exhibit spa selected retail spa
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Airport Studio, 2013 College of Design, North Carolina State University JFK INTERNATIONAL: MULTI-MODAL NEXUS OF ONE Soroush Khajegi Fall 2013
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Airport Studio, 2013 College of Design, North Carolina State University NY BRIDGE PARK AIRPORT Zahra Miriam Fall 2013
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Airport Studio, 2015 College of Design, North Carolina State University 2075 VISION DOUBLE HELIX: RDU TERMINAL ONE Tarek Bassiri Hengchen Liu Spring 2015
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Airport Studio, 2015 College of Design, North Carolina State University RDU TERMINAL 1 William Sendor Ntchwaidumela Thomas Spring 2015
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Airport Studio, 2015 College of Design, North Carolina State University AIRPORT OF THE FUTURE RECONNECTING TO THE ROMANCE OF FLIGHT Yi-Chang Liao Jason Patterson Michael Wengenroth Spring 2015
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Airport Studio, 2016 College of Design, North Carolina State University VISION 2075: RDU Ryan Cooper Ryan Kilgannon Alek Wimberly Spring 2016
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Airport Studio, 2016 College of Design, North Carolina State University 2075 VISION COLLABOREUM: RDU TERMINAL ONE EXPANDED Wenlu Guo Zhenchao Zhang Zihuan Zhou Spring 2016
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Airport Studio, 2016 College of Design, North Carolina State University SPINAL SYNERGY | FUSING TRANSPORTATION + DEVELOPMENT Foad Faizi Elaheh Khabbazy Sara Noorani Spring 2016
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Airport Studio, 2017 College of Design, North Carolina State University LOFTY AMBITION: MEGALOPOLIS INTERNATIONAL Alex Buck Kevin deMontbrun Spring 2017
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Airport Studio, 2017 College of Design, North Carolina State University CHICAGO O’HARE EXPANSION Jeromy Clements Zeyad Musmar Spring 2017
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Airport Studio, 2018 College of Design, North Carolina State University Global Design Thinking This advanced graduate studio provides students the opportunity to imagine new and innovative solutions for future airports, as well as how public space is served by the design of long span structures. The Airport Studio has expanded the college’s studio offerings in terms of scale and technology, while the airport typology provides opportunities to gain awareness of the integration of building art and science. The studio also challenges students to envision the typology 50 years into the future and its potential function as public space. Our commitment beyond sponsorship includes: • Fentress airport designers co-teach, participate in design reviews, and serve as student resources throughout the semester • Sharing of existing facilities analysis introduces critical design principles • Insight into future industry technology and economic and social forces • Access to a massive digital library to support student work • Open, regular dialogue on practice, professional service and shaping a professional career The studio’s exhibition, “Symposium on Airport Design,” was shown at the 2016 Venice Architectural Biennale. The European Cultural Center subsequently invited the College of Design to mount a major Airport Studio exhibit being shown at the 2018 Venice Biennale.
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Palazzo Bembo Time Space Existence exhibition hosted by the European Cultural Centre The Airport Studio has drastically expanded our College’s studio offerings in monumentality, scale, symbolism, and technical challenge. Students are encouraged to consider the poetic and technical issues as informing each other. Wayne Place, Ph.D., M.Arch., P.E., Professor of Architecture, North Carolina State University
2018 Participating Students Arpitha Belur Emily Doyle Ingrid Fullerton Parisa Javani Michael Juriga Sheyda Livingston Rosa McDonald Thanh Nguyen Daoru Wang Cameron Westbrook Baxter Wilson
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Professor Wayne Place, Ph.D., M.Arch., P.E., with NC State College of Design student Ingrid Fullerton
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Curtis Fentress, FAIA, RIBA, with NC State College of Design students Rosa McDonald, Sheyda Livingston, and Arpitha Belur
Curtis Fentress, FAIA, RIBA, with NC State College of Design student Daoru Wang
Mark Hoversten PhD, Dean NCSU College of Design with NC State College of Design student Sheyda Livingston
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Curtis Fentress Airports as Civic Spaces
It is estimated that there are a million people in the sky at any given moment, with as many as 10,000 commercial flights traveling flight paths that connect virtually every city on Earth through more than 50,000 airports. As the world’s population continues to grow (it is expected to surpass nine billion by 2020), more than seventy percent of all people will be living in dense urban areas. A tremendous surge in air travel will necessitate the need for even more airports. As the necessity for airports increases, so too does their significance. In less than a century, the airport has become a new category of architecture at least as important to our global, post-modern culture as train stations, temples, courthouses, and museums. Airports symbolize our ability to break the bonds of gravity and connect with others around the globe. Since their inception as spaces for transit, airports have become important civic buildings, adopting significance in social, cultural and public life. An airport is a symbol of the community it serves and it reflects a sense of the culture of that place. As people are transported from one culture to another, buying goods from one another, and eating foods from the regions they visit, the airport has become an incubator for globalization. A profound transformation is occurring today in all forms of public architecture. “Transparency” is often used to describe this transformation; making public architecture transparent makes it accessible for all, thus improving the quality of life for everyone. Stately and exclusionary columns are no longer de rigueur for courthouses. Museums have opened their
galleries to daylight and hands-on activities, and temple architecture is as diverse as any other modern building type. By creating new emphasis on forms and the spaces within, and assimilating amenities that make people comfortable, architects and designers are creating spaces that people want to linger in. Key to designing public spaces is to make them flexible. What was a beautiful and spacious “great hall” pre-9/11 is now a makeshift assortment of stanchions and security equipment, with long lines of passengers waiting to get through security. This too will change. Research-driven technology that will eliminate these lines is being harnessed rapidly, thus necessitating continuous modification in the areas between secured and non-secured spaces. Airports will be one of the world’s most important types of civic architecture in the twenty-first century, primarily due to increases in population, migrations from rural areas to large cities, and the affordability of flight. People are spending more time at airports— an average of two hours per flight—making the experience that much more important; they are no longer simply passing through. The journey has become the experience. Every moment counts, and quality and efficiency are vital. Artwork, daylight, places to exercise, charge electronic devices, cozy spaces for relaxing, toprated restaurants and retail establishments—these are the things that make airports exciting civic spaces. This is the memory that one takes with them as they remember their visit. 37
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The College of Design expresses its gratitude to Curt Fentress, Joshua Stephens, Ana-Maria Drughi, Zahra Mirian, Agatha Kessler, Thom Walsh, Tom Theobald, Julian Fentress, Marianne Reynolds, Jason Knowles, Cassidy Humphrey, Tatiana Cullen, Jenny Taylor, Alex Knowles, and Mira Woodson of Fentress Architects and William Sandifer of the RDU Airport Authority for providing the expertise, reviews, and general support that made this studio possible. They have provided an extraordinary educational experience for our students. Â We express our deepest gratitude to Curt Fentress: For encouraging us to: Innovate, Be bold, and Believe in Ourselves and For opening doors that would never have been open to us without his active promotion of our program. Â We are also deeply grateful to the European Cultural Center for making this incredible cultural opportunity available to the World. The College of Design expresses its gratitude to The Students in the Airport Studio who brought their dreams, imaginations, energy, optimism, and commitment to drive this process to such a successful completion: Spring 2103 Ana-Maria Drughi Josh Stephens Fall 2013 Suzanne Cash Kenan Frase Tenay Gonul Michael Greene Kimberly Johnson Soroush Khajegi Mason Lehman Kelsey Liu Zahra Mirian Seyed Moeinzadeh Bahar Saghaei Morgan Van Horn
Spring 2015 Tarek Baassiri Kevin Diamond Zhendong Ding Braxton Hinkle Yi-Chang (Enzo) Liao Hengchen Liu Mahta Nazari Jason Patterson Mahdi Sabouhi William Sendor Ntchwaidumela Thomas Michael Wengenroth Grant Wylie
Spring 2016 Ryan Cooper Foad Faizi Wenlu Guo Raphael Hatley Olta Kapinova Elaheh Khabbazy Ryan Kilgannon Nathanael Latigue Mo Kuan Lin Marty Needham Marzieh (Sara) Noorani Parker Stewart Alek Wimberly Zhenchao Zhang Ziyuan (Jenny) Zhou
Spring 2017 Violet Bernard Zach Bradshaw Alex Buck Sara Clark Jeromy Clements Kevin Demontbrun Ryan Houser Zeyad Musmar Summerlynn Walker
Spring 2018 Arpitha Belur Emily Doyle Ingrid Fullerton Parisa Javani Michael Juriga Sheyda Livingston Rosa McDonald Thanh Nguyen Daoru Wang Cameron Westbrook Baxter Wilson
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