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It looks beautiful. It talks about it being structural. Is it really? It looks more like a suspended ceiling below steel girders. Our largest airport (AKL) is

It looks beautiful. It talks about it being structural. Is it really? It looks more like a suspended ceiling below steel girders. Our largest airport (AKL) is in the process of rebuilding both domestic and international terminals. They are trying for a timber ceiling [1] with rubber floors [1]. It seems a confused design. > A ‘cost-effective’' mix of durable carpeted and rubber flooring was being used inside and tray profile steel on the exterior. [0] It can't be any worse than our current airport. [1] https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/airlines/first-look-auckland-airport-reveals-interior-details-of-new-39b-terminal/GAZ5BYANAJC6NGOYUV73X3RDKQ/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/airlines/first...

ajross 2y ago
It's the renovated interior of a pre-existing building, so yeah: not structural, at least no more than needed to hold up its own weight. But it really is very nice.
- rootusrootus 2y ago
  They renovated the existing structure and expanded it as well, doubling the capacity of the airport. They did a lot of interesting work to make it earthquake proof. Check out the video, I'm pretty sure someone posted it in this discussion.
stevesearer 2y ago
There does appear to be metal structure, but in this photo you can see the beams between the metal appear to be mass timber: https://design-milk.com/images/2024/12/ZGF-Portland-Airport-5.jpg https://design-milk.com/images/2024/12/ZGF-Portland-Airport-... This has more information about the structure including diagrams: https://www.zgf.com/work/5683-port-of-portland-pdx-airport-main-terminal-expansion https://www.zgf.com/work/5683-port-of-portland-pdx-airport-m...
directevolve 2y ago
In Portland, we also have the world’s tallest mass timber building, Carbon12. Mass timber is definitely structural here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon12 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon12
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- audunw 2y ago
  Not the tallest in the world. It was surpassed by Mjøstårnet in Norway and now Ascent in Milwaukee is the tallest. It’s not even remotely close to the height of these new buildings. It’s 26m, while the three tallest now are around 85m. Not to say it’s not impressive anyway. I applaud all the progress that has been made in replacing concrete with wood in large buildings. We should build more buildings like that (as long as we source wood sustainably)
  - directevolve 2y ago
    Whoops, thanks for the correction on the height - tallest in the US, at least at the time it was built.
wcfrobert 2y ago
It's a mix of steel and wood. Curved Glulam beams sits on top of massive steel trusses, which are mostly hidden from view. The steel trusses in turn sit on top of big Y columns. The roof is seismically isolated too.

ajross 2y ago

It's the renovated interior of a pre-existing building, so yeah: not structural, at least no more than needed to hold up its own weight. But it really is very nice.

rootusrootus 2y ago
They renovated the existing structure and expanded it as well, doubling the capacity of the airport. They did a lot of interesting work to make it earthquake proof. Check out the video, I'm pretty sure someone posted it in this discussion.

stevesearer 2y ago

There does appear to be metal structure, but in this photo you can see the beams between the metal appear to be mass timber: https://design-milk.com/images/2024/12/ZGF-Portland-Airport-5.jpg https://design-milk.com/images/2024/12/ZGF-Portland-Airport-... This has more information about the structure including diagrams: https://www.zgf.com/work/5683-port-of-portland-pdx-airport-main-terminal-expansion https://www.zgf.com/work/5683-port-of-portland-pdx-airport-m...

directevolve 2y ago

In Portland, we also have the world’s tallest mass timber building, Carbon12. Mass timber is definitely structural here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon12 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon12

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audunw 2y ago
Not the tallest in the world. It was surpassed by Mjøstårnet in Norway and now Ascent in Milwaukee is the tallest. It’s not even remotely close to the height of these new buildings. It’s 26m, while the three tallest now are around 85m. Not to say it’s not impressive anyway. I applaud all the progress that has been made in replacing concrete with wood in large buildings. We should build more buildings like that (as long as we source wood sustainably)
- directevolve 2y ago
  Whoops, thanks for the correction on the height - tallest in the US, at least at the time it was built.

wcfrobert 2y ago

It's a mix of steel and wood. Curved Glulam beams sits on top of massive steel trusses, which are mostly hidden from view. The steel trusses in turn sit on top of big Y columns. The roof is seismically isolated too.