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 or you also can call it the Forest in the Airport
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The Location
| The new KLIA is located at
Sepang, state of Selangor, about 50km south of Kuala Lumpur. It also
forms the southern tip of the future Silicon Valley of Malaysia - Multimedia
Super Corridor (MSC).
Being one of the facilities within the MSC, it is nearby the new Federal Government administrative center - Putrajaya and the heart of MSC - Cyberjaya. |
The Project
Main terminal building |
"It's not merely an airport." described by the Malaysia Airport Sdn Bhd. The development which sprawls over an area of 10,000 hectares, will consist of Formula One race track, golf course, theme park etc in the future. This is the first phase of the project, the following 4 phases will be commence on 2003 and complete on 2025. It will eventually serves more than 100 million passengers annually. |
| It is a evidence of Malaysia's
rich natural heritage.
The structure, which combined of environment and mankind, is designed by a Japanese philosopher-architect Dr Kishor Kurokawa. It's aimed to convey the significant impression of tropicality Malaysia to foreign visitors. Here, the advance technology and modern architecture are interwinded with glimpses of the Malaysian rainforest. The intentional use of indigenous flora in the airport landscaping (a "forest in the airport" ), combined with real forests surrounding KLIA (an "airport in the forest" ), creates a green spectacle, soothing and calming tired travelers. |
 The artificial rainforest
stuck in a huge glass drum
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The forest in the airport |
The forested elements
and landscaping in KLIA, eg. the palm-tree-trunk-like columns, the
roof in leaf shape etc are showing the natural heritage Malaysia. Perhaps
the most interesting of all is the artificial rainforest stuck in the a
huge glass drum at the middle of the satellite building. It is a rainforest
with its own microclimate that wouldn't pose any hazard to the flight paths.
eg. the vegetation planted do not bear any edible fruits that may attract
birds. Besides, its hyperbolic paraboloid elements such as conical
column and lifelike roofing are apparently in a rainforest scenario.
The enclosure for the building is not conventional wall
again, it is a geometric steel frame supporting the glass skin that
enable a non-obstructed view from the inside of building, thus providing
an integration of environment and building.
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The conical columns & parabolic roofing. |
The entrance of Main Terminal Building. |
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