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Steel Architecture Competition
First Prize National Contest / Venezuela International Representation
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, 2009
Tropical Airport explores the airport as a light climatic infrastructure: a place of arrival, movement and shade within the humid landscape of the Caribbean coast.
Conceived through steel as both structure and atmosphere, the project works with large spans, covered exterior spaces and open circulation to respond to the conditions of tropical weather. The architecture is organised as a protective canopy — a system capable of sheltering passengers while allowing air, light and landscape to move through the building.
The proposal understands the airport not only as a terminal, but as a threshold between territory and journey. Its open structure creates a sequence of shaded transitions where travel begins in contact with climate, vegetation and horizon.
Award: First Prize National Contest and Venezuela International Representation
Organised by: ILAFA
Institution: Universidad Central de Venezuela — FAU-UCV
Design unit: Unidad Docente Nueve
Location: Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Year: 2009
Design: Karla Montauti and Yamandú Meléndez
Special assistance: Claudia Ravelo
Project tutor: Juan Castillo Lagrange
Invited tutor: Edwing Otero
National contest jury: Joel Sanz
2009-11-13_Sidetur Acero al día. II Concurso ILAFA Venezuela 2009. Ganadores 1er premio nacional. Venezuela
2010-03-21_Arquitetura & Aço Magazine. Aeroportos (Pag 32). Brasil.