Airport cities and aerotropolis / Mohamed Sayed Hussein Omar ; Supervised Ahmed Mohamed Salah Eldin Ahmed Ouf , Doha Magdy Eissa

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architectural Engineering

The design of an airport building needs to be seen as more than the design of the building; it aims to send a message to the world about the city and the country where the airport is located. This research will explore recent trends in the design of the airport terminal in relation to the specific areas of passenger use and activities within the terminal building. Architects and planners treat airport terminals as prominent architectural entities that need unique cultural, economic, environmental and technical considerations as they affect the global image of the city. This research has a new perspective on the airport. It is only listed. The airport is a network of complex facilities and is the center of development in any area where it is located. Airports have a lot of attempts for development concepts. These levels fall from the regional, urban and airport design levels. One of the most important concepts that we can discuss in this research is the concept of airport city (Aerotropolis), which is the total urban development and development of airport cities. Due to the new perspective of the airport, there is also a new perspective of the building is to provide appropriate facilities for air transport and provide passengers with unique, innovative and recreational activities which has become airports rely heavily on revenue. In this Search, we will discuss how the airports reach all these developments and we will show the types of this development such as urban development and how the airports shifted from airports only to the airport city and then to the development of the airport city

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