Wellington Airport, Stage 01, Wellington
Winner Supreme RMB Commercial Project of the Year Award 2008
Initially engaged to look at a redevelopment of the retailing area within the recently completed Main Terminal Building, Studio Pacific's brief then grew into a design investigation of the adjacent International Passenger Terminal to alleviate capacity constraints emerging in the existing facility.
Contained within a pier structure and further building additions dating from as early as 1976, these passenger facilities have undergone several reconfigurations in internal layout to reflect the changing needs of the airport's operations. The challenge has been to re-align the facilities provided with the expectations of international passengers using the airport today.
In achieving this, a new entry point into the expanding queue area has been created. This allows a greatly enhanced approach to the entry, that through the use of the double height illuminated wall as a design element is readily visible from throughout the Main Terminal Building (MTB) retail and food area. This illuminated wall is two-sided and is also used within the Customs queue area itself as a single height element once you have passed through into International Departures.
Stage 01 has addressed capacity constraints affecting the passenger processing at International Departures and Arrivals, as well as providing additional retailing floor area within the International Terminal itself, and forms the enabling works for Stage 02. (In association with Architecture Warren and Mahoney).
Client: Wellington International Airport Ltd.
