The document provides an overview of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. It details the airport's size at 3,240 hectares, making it one of the largest in Southeast Asia. Statistics are given for the terminal building dimensions and capacity, including handling over 45 million passengers per year. The layout includes two levels of roads, eight floors in the terminal building, and facilities like concourses, runways, and a hotel.

1. SUVARNABHUMI
AIRPORT
LITERATURE STUDY

2. INDEX
• Introduction
• Statistics
• Approach
• Floors
• Master plan
• Roof
• Terminal building
• Concourses
• Runways
• Parking and Hotel
• Bibliography

3. INTRODUCTION
• SuvarnabhumiAirport also known
unofficially as BangkokAirport, is one of
two international airports serving
Bangkok,Thailand
• Suvarnabhumi covers an area of 3,240
hectares (8,000 acres), making it one of
the biggest international airports in
SoutheastAsia and a regional hub for
aviation

4. THE AIRPORT IN NUMBERS
• terminal building: 563 000 m²
• storeys: 8
• length: 444 m
• width: 111 m
• capacity of handling passengers: 45 million
per year
• handling flights: 76 operations per hour
• passport control checkpoints for arrivals: 130
 passport control checkpoints for departures:
72
 baggage conveyor belts: 22 (22 km in length)
 check-in counters: 360
 moving walkways: 107
 elevators: 102
 escalators: 83

5. APPROACH
• Like most of the airports it has
two roads at different levels,
one for arrivals and one for
departures

6. THE FLOORS AND
THEIR FUNCTIONS

7. THE MASTERPLAN
The master plan utilizes a terminal/pier concept
that emphasizes passenger circulation over
aircraft circulation

8. ARRIVAL FLOW

9. DEPARTURE FLOW

10. THE ROOF STRUCTURE…
• A large roof trellis structure placed
over the complex of functionally
separate buildings unifies the site
and provides the predominant
architectural image as approached
from the landside
• Designed to accommodate future
growth of the terminal pavilion, the
trellis serves an important function
by shading the structures below
from direct sunlight, thereby
reducing mechanical loads

11. SECTION

12. THE ROOF STRUCTURE
• The roof structure of the Suvarnabhumi
Airport has a size of 567m by 210 m in
plan and is comprised of 8 Supertruss
girders
• These girders have a central span of 126
m and two cantilevering ends, which
both have a length of 42 m

13. THE ROOF STRUCTURE
• The entire roof is supported by 16
frame-type steel columns
• Creating the architectural form by its
function, the geometry of the
Supertruss girder was determined
through the level of the bending
moment

14. • The glazedTerminal Building is placed in the
centre below the roof structure. It has a size of
444 m by 111 m in plan and is comprised of
cable facade walls with a height of about 35m
• To guarantee life long high performance and
low maintenance costs, sunshade louvers,
comprised of mill finish aluminium, are
positioned on top of the roof structure
THE TERMINAL BUILDING

15. THE TERMINAL BUILDING
• They have been designed to shade the
Terminal Building from direct sunlight still
allowing diffuse indirect lighting to enter the
Terminal Building
• Because the sun shading louvers have been
positioned outside the building envelope, the
absorbed solar heat will be transmitted to the
environment by natural ventilation creating an
energy saving ecological solution

16. • With the measurements described, they were
able to control the light and heat transmission
creating a highly transparent building which
matches both highest thermal and visual
comfort requirements
THE TERMINAL BUILDING

17. THE CONCOURSE
• The concourse enclosure, which houses the
hold rooms and passenger transportation
means, is comprised of 5-pin arch truss
girders.
• It has an alternating system of glazed facades
and a translucent fabric membrane set-up.
• It spans 27m. to bridge the spacing between
the glass facades
Concourse map

18. THE CONCOURSE
• The laminated glass of the glass facade will
receive a sun protection coating and a ceramic
frit of variable densities
• While the fritting is relatively dense at the
rooftop to achieve good solar protection
against the high standing sun inThailand, it
decreases gradually towards the lower parts to
allow for good views to the outside

19. THE CONCOURSE UNITS

20. THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER
• The airport air-traffic control tower is the
tallest in the world at 135 metres (443 ft.) from
2006 to 2014.

21. RUNWAYS
• The airport has 2 parallel runways (60 m. wide, 4,000 m. and 3700 m. long) and 2 parallel taxiways to
accommodate simultaneous departures and arrivals
• It has a total of 120 parking bays (51 with contact gates and 69 remote gates) and 5 of these are capable
of accommodating the Airbus A380 aircraft.
• With a capacity of handling 76 flight operations per hour

22. PARKING AND HOTEL
• Between the airport hotel and the terminal building are the two 5-storey car park buildings with a
combined capacity of 5,000 cars
• Above the underground rail link station and in front of the passenger terminal building is the 600-room
hotel

23. BIBLIOGRAPHY
www.bangkokairportonline.com
www.archdaily.com
www.donmuenga.com
www.hok.com
www.heidelbergcement.com