The O’Hare Global Terminal by Santiago Calatrava

As a compliment to his O’Hare Global Terminal competition entry, Calatrava has presented a vision for the O’Hare campus which is functionally independent and can be realized in the future. This proposal presents a holistic vision of an Airport City: a quarter for Chicago where airline terminals, hotels, conference centers, and shopping converge around a multi-modal transport interchange with modernized links to the city.
The exterior of the building establishes a dynamic presence on the O’Hare campus, with a domed roof that cantilevers over the Arrivals and Departures Roads. The clear glass curtain wall offers approaching passengers views into the building, and a relocated ATS Station and new canopy helps unite the entire campus and improve public transportation access. An early design strategy was to combine the terminal building with the gate’s concourse into one centralized entity.
This configuration offers several important benefits: its symmetrical presence on the site provides a clear focal point for the O’Hare campus from the outside; its equidistant proximity to Terminals 1 and 3 allows for ease of transfer for both United and American Airlines, each one of the airlines occupying one of the adjacent terminal buildings respectively.
Retail and food and beverage outlets are set within the interior gardens at the center of a grand light-flooded space, with all gates situated around this magnificent hall. Source by Santiago Calatrava. Info project goo.gl/TbJebP
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