Airport Terminal at Night: Massive Volumes Visible from Afar

Night view of an airport terminal from a distance on the tarmac. The building is an extremely long, flat horizontal volume, with the curve of its roof outlined by continuous linear lights along the eaves, becoming the only horizontal reference line in the dark, open environment. The glass facade of the terminal reveals bright, uniform white light from the interior lobby, showing internal columns, ceiling structures, and moving figures. The interior brightness is significantly higher than the exterior. On the tarmac are low ground lights and blue edge lights of the taxiways, presenting a large area of regularly arranged point lights. The sky is completely black. The overall impression is one of immense scale but simple form. Avoid: adding floodlights to the exterior walls to illuminate the volume, losing detail in the interior light, eliminating the ordered arrangement of tarmac lights, adding colored light.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

夜間從停機坪遠處看向航廈,建築是一個極長、極扁的水平量體,屋頂的曲線被沿著簷口的連續線性光勾出,成為在黑暗空曠環境中唯一的水平參考線。航廈的玻璃面透出室內大廳明亮而均勻的白光,可以看見內部的柱列、天花結構與移動的人影,室內亮度明顯高於室外。停機坪上是低矮的地面燈與滑行道的藍色邊燈,呈現一大片規則排列的點狀光。天空全黑。整體給人尺度巨大但形體簡潔的印象。避免:在外牆加投光燈把量體打亮、讓室內光失去細節、消除停機坪燈的排列秩序、加入彩色光。