Four Configurations: Linear, Pier, Satellite, Unit

A comparison of four airport terminal plan configurations: linear, pier, satellite, and unit. The linear configuration is a long strip with aircraft parked along the front; the pier configuration has several long piers extending from the main building, with boarding gates distributed on both sides of the piers; the satellite configuration connects the main building with independent boarding islands via an underground tram; the unit configuration consists of several independent small terminal buildings. The walking distances and expansion methods for all four are completely different. Avoid: mixing the four configurations into a single plan, ignoring the relationship between aircraft parking positions and the configuration, making the satellite concourse unconnected, or depicting the unit configuration as one large building.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

四個平面的比較。線形是一條長帶,飛機沿著正面排開;指廊是主樓伸出幾條長廊,登機門分佈在廊的兩側;衛星是主樓與獨立的登機島之間以地下電車連接;單元式是幾棟小航廈各自獨立。四者的步行距離與擴建方式完全不同。避免:把四種構型混成同一個平面、忽略飛機停放的位置與構型的關係、讓衛星廳沒有連接方式、把單元式畫成一棟大建築。