Cargo building, Amsterdam Airport
Schiphol
This air cargo terminal
building is situated in Schiphol Zuid-Oost, the airport’s newly developed
cargo-handling zone, parallel to the runways. It consists of a freely
subdivisible main space where the cargo pallets are assembled and an adjoining
space for mechanical storage. Both these spaces are sheltered by an obliquely
rising roof sporting large rooflights of synthetic channel sections. The
offices are housed in four volumes. One roof bay deep inside the building is
raised up to allow crossing between the two offices without disrupting
operations in the main space below. This zone serves to separate the hall into
incoming and outgoing and is pointed up with translucent side walls. The roof
is a steel structure held in place by steel lattice trusses. The airside facade
of transparent panelling keeps the stored cargo in sight and distributes
daylight deep into the hall.
Client
Schiphol Real Estate
Architect
Benthem Crouwel NACO
Gross
floor area
46000
m²
Start
construction
1995
Completion
1997
