Zero-emission Green Gateway airport concept wins 2020 Fentress Global Challenge

From over 100 scholar design submissions in additional than 15 international locations, the Fentress International Problem has chosen The Inexperienced Gateway — a zero-emission multimodal hub — because the winner of this 12 months’s worldwide scholar design competitors. Hosted yearly by Fentress Architects, the successful submission by Nikhil Bang and Kaushal Tatiya from the Southern California Institute of Structure (SCI-Arc) transforms the Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport in New Delhi right into a sustainable and culturally responsive vacation spot able to purifying the air and stationing flying vehicles. The 2020 Fentress International Problem winners acquired a prize valued at $15,000.

Launched in 2011 to advance revolutionary scholar design in public structure, the Fentress International Problem has attracted 1000’s of entries from over 75 international locations since its inception. The 2020 temporary requested contributors to ascertain the way forward for aviation and airport terminal design for the 12 months 2100. This 12 months’s futuristic proposals have been evaluated by seven jurors in fields from aviation to structure with representatives from corporations corresponding to Richard Meier & Companions Architects and KRAMER aerotek.

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Bang’s and Tatiya’s successful Inexperienced Gateway idea focuses on Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport, the worldwide aviation hub that serves the Indian capital in addition to northern India. The design is constructed on the idea that flying vehicles shall be made a actuality by 2100 and may exchange home flight as we all know it. Consequently, the scholars redesigned the prevailing terminal as a hub for six air-purifying towers scattered all through New Delhi that shall be used as modular platforms for air taxis. Indoor greenery, an abundance of daylighting and arched structure visually unite the buildings on this decentralized system.

The scholars wrote, “[The Green Gateway is] zero-emission on the macro and micro stage, bettering mobility throughout the town by changing home flight as one of many main sources of air pollution and making air journey a private affair.”

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