








Project Partners
Ivan Harbour
Simon Smithson
Project Lead
Andrew Tyley
Date
2015-ongoing
Client
Taoyuan International Airport Corporation
Location
Taipei, Taiwan
Gross Area
640,000m²
The design for Taoyuan Terminal 3 synthesises the practice’s previous major airport experience with the specific brief. It has brought together the flexibility of the single span, loose fit volume of Heathrow Terminal 5 with the warmth and human qualities of the flowing interior spaces of Barajas Terminal 4. The result is a unique, dynamic and fluid architecture that allows for easy adaption and future transformation of airport functions without compromising the passenger experience or the architectural integrity.
The RSHP proposal is inherently simple in its concept. The design is inspired by Taiwan’s beautiful landscapes, the seas surrounding it, its rhythms of nature and life to create a series of unique interior places designed for their purpose and protected beneath an elegant hard shell roof. Within, a soft inner surface is malleable and dynamic to celebrate and form the ever changing spaces below.
The nature of the interior spaces whether grand, intimate, uniform or dramatic and the extent of those spaces too can be changed. This adjustable scaling will give passengers spatial clarity in all areas; large, small, busy or quiet, to reduce stress and improve wellbeing and comfort. This flexibility ensures the airport is always at its best and suitably presented as the principal gateway to and from Taiwan to the rest of the world.
This terminal will be the first of a new generation, a highlight in the journey for new and seasoned travellers alike. It will offer arriving passengers an equality of spatial experience to those departing. Its rational plan arrangement is forecast to deliver minimum connection times of just
40 minutes, the best in the region, with simple way-finding and airside connectivity.
Key Facts
Date
2015-ongoing
Client
Taoyuan International Airport Corporation
Location
Taipei, Taiwan
Area
Gross Area
640,000m²
Co-Architect
Fei & Cheng Associates
Structural Engineer
CECI Engineering Consultants / Arup
Landscape Architect
Gillespies
Retail Architect
The Design Solution
Baggage Handling Consultants
BNP Associates
Aviation Services
Fraport
Transport Consultant
OTC
Team
Luca D'Amico
Benjamin Darras
Da Feng
Vidal Fernandez Diez
Tobi Frenzen
Lennart Grut
Nandi Han
Ivan Harbour
Jon Mercer
Mariola Merino
Mark Ng
Joseph Park
Andrew Tyley
Ben Warner
Toby Tinsley
Simon Smithson
Pedro Morales
Ming-Yi Lin
David Weng
Marcie Lu
Jason Chang
Project Partners
Ivan Harbour
Simon Smithson