Nordic submitted the winning entry in an invited competition to increase the existing capacity of the airport to 28-35 million passengers per year. The project involves the planning and design of airside and landside areas, expansion of the existing terminal building and a new pier.

The pro­ject com­prises pre­lim­i­nary and de­tailed de­sign, in­clud­ing con­tact with air­lines, con­ces­sion­aires and air­port han­dling com­pa­nies. In the first phase the ca­pac­ity of the air­port will rise to 28 mil­lion pas­sen­ger per year, while in the sec­ond phase the num­ber will in­crease to 35 mil­lion.

The de­sign team as­pires for the up­graded air­port to be ex­em­plary with re­gards to sus­tain­abil­ity. The shape of the build­ing has been op­ti­mized for tak­ing ad­van­tage of pas­sive so­lar en­ergy and day­light, and is de­signed to be re­spon­sive to chang­ing weather con­di­tions. Low-car­bon tech­nolo­gies such as dis­trict heat­ing and nat­ural ther­mal en­ergy have also been key el­e­ments in the sus­tain­abil­ity strat­egy. Oslo Air­port is al­ready one of the world’s most en­ergy ef­fi­cient air­ports, and the new ter­mi­nal is de­signed to achieve ‘BREEAM Ex­cel­lence’.

Fo­cus on en­sur­ing that uni­ver­sal de­sign is an in­te­gral part of the over­all ar­chi­tec­tural con­cept has been an im­por­tant part of the ex­pan­sion pro­ject. In keep­ing with the ex­ist­ing ter­mi­nal, this strat­egy in­cludes sim­ple and un­der­stand­able move­ment pat­terns giv­ing the trav­eler a good overview and un­der­stand­ing of where to go.

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Project Facts

Location:Oslo, Norway

Year:2008-2017

Responsible Partner:Gudmund Stokke

Area:140.000m2

Construction Cost:13 Billion NOK

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