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Terminal B Concourse, Mineta San Jose International Airport
Client: City of San Jose
Date Completed: February 2009
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Program: A 380,000-square-foot concourse including twelve gates (of which six are open so far) and retail and concessions areas.
Design concept and Solution: The architects wanted to transform the standard long, narrow airport concourse into a pathway that feels like a sunlit paseo and evokes, from the outside, the high-tech landscape of Silicon Valley.
Gensler covered the concourse exterior in curvy perforated aluminum sails, which look solid in daylight but transparent at night, when they’re lit from within. Like a live wire that has been partially unraveled, the concourse glows at night with snippets of lights and activity visible through the perforations—an effect accentuated by fiber-optic cables that run along the exterior in bands of green. Inside, floor-to-ceiling windows bring the outside in, as do the numerous skylights. Sustainable features such as daylight harvesting and an efficient displacement ventilation system have this project on track for LEED Silver certification.
Gross square footage:
380,000 sq. ft.
Cost: $342,000,000
Architect:
Gensler, in association with Steinberg Architects
2500 Broadway, Suite 300
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Gensler
Two Harrison Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94105
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