MALDIVES – Velana International Airport New Terminal Building 2025

  • status Built
  • client Setec, Maldives Airport company Ltd, Saudi Bin Laden
  • architects 1PAX
  • engineering SETEC, T/E/S/S
  • area 77 000 m²

Velana – Maldives

Design of the entire new international terminal, interior and passenger experience. Development of a new connectivity zone with the seaplane terminal and resorts’s  reception and welcome. The project is developed in BIM with a team of 30 architects and engineers. Maldivian Airport Company granted the acceptance of project in August 2017 and authorized the construction.

As an urban building, Velana International Airport is a unique performing facility and, at the same time, a new landscape for Maldivian people.

The building’s monumentality due to its impressive length (about 530 m), is clearly noticeable from the city of Malé. This new link should rhythmically underline the sea and the skyline. Using UHPC new technology, the waves of the facades and Maldivian pattern provides a second skin with environmental benefits.

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While integrating a contemporary image expressing this “traditional modernity” in the Maldives externally, the building should be efficient and welcoming from the passenger’s arrival until getting to their destination. The natural light and shadow produced all over the passenger experience is more than just a view, but sensations and emotions.

Mabel Miranda – Architect – 1PAX Cofounder

The arrival experience, starting right after the moment the passenger is out of the plane, is central. From the contact stand pre-boarding bridge, the passenger takes the escalators up to the arrival level with a view towards the airside facade. Then he crosses panoramic bridges offering a view towards the boarding lounges and the sea in front of them, a quite unusual way to arrive to an airport. After crossing the bridges, he will discover the panoramic arrival gallery framed by waves. A glazed corridor offering the sea landscape and the city of Malé views during the passenger’s way until the arrival controls.

 

 

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Showcasing Maldives culture and heritage in the architecture of the most prominent landmark of the Country is a clear statement of a turn towards the nation and its inhabitants: The new terminal building is the largest project in the Country and has meaningful importance on future economic development.

 

 

 

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