Brunnert und Partner, Flughafen Leipzig/Halle

Dtsch.-Engl.
Text v. Martina Düttmann. Aufn. v. Christian Richters

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Produktbeschreibung

The new Leipzig/Halle airport has not just one, but two predecessors. One was Leipzig-Mockau airport, opened as a "World Airport" in 1923 and often still used after the Second World War in the GDR days to serve the Leipziger Messe, and then its competitor, Leipzig/Halle airport (near Schkeuditz), which opened in 1927 and by 1937 was already the second-largest airport in Germany. It took over the Messe flights from 1963 onwards, and continued to grow until 1989. After that, quick action was needed. Passenger numbers had increased fourfold by 1994. A master plan was worked out for a second takeoff and land- ing runway, intended for 3.5 million passengers per year. An open architectural competition followed in 1994, and was won by Brunnert und Partner from Stuttgart. They won with a risky concept that ran counter to the master plan. Instead of filling the site between the two runways running east-west, which, in addition, is cut through in parallel by the A14 motorway and a new high-speed railway line, with individual buildings, the architects designed a bridge structure spanning the railway track and the motorway from south to north. It is able to integrate the multi-storey car-park, the mall, the check-in hall, the access road and the transfer to the railway station. The functions were so skilfully arranged and interlinked above and alongside each other within this gigantic bridge that it was possible to create an airport of simple routes that at the same time made an unmistakable landmark and kept the centre of the site free because of its cleverly devised construction, so that all the subsequent buildings can develop in an east-west ribbon. The car-park has been in existence ever since 1998, the baggage hall to the south since 2002, and the mall and the central check-in hall since 2003. This concludes the first building phase, which begins at the existing terminal and ends beyond the railway lines. The concept of the bridge will not be complete until the second building phase, although it can already be made out quite clearly. The inserted ICE station, a direct commission, also started operating in 2003; passengers reach the airport from Leipzig's main station in fourteen minutes. Martina Düttmann founded her own architectural press, called Archibook, in 1979, became an editor for the Birkhäuser Verlag in 1988, edited the Bauwelt Berlin Annuals series from 1996 to 2000 and now works as an author and translator, mainly for Bauwelt.

Produktdetails

• Opus Bd.52
• Verlag: Edition Axel Menges
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Abmessung: 300mm
• Gewicht: 890g
• ISBN-13: 9783930698523
• ISBN-10: 3930698528
• Artikelnr.: 12308227