Stuttgart Airport, Terminal 3

Germany, Stuttgart

Competition 1998 – 1st prize

Design Meinhard von Gerkan with Klaus Lenz
Partner Klaus Staratzke and Jürgen Hillmer
Project team Hito Ueda, Malte Wolf, Renata Dipper,
Birgit Föllmer, Uli Rösler, Karl-Heinz Behrendt, Ahmet Alkuru, Sigrid Müller,
La Jana Weinmann, Jens Reichert, Evgenia Werner, Maren Lucht,
Helma von Szada, Christian Kreusler, Jutta Kaufhold, Tom Stemmer
Structural engineers steel structure schlaich bergermann und partner
Technical building equipment Ing. Gesellschaft Höpfner
Client Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH
Construction period 2000–2004

Photographers:
Juergen Schmidt
jürgen_schmidt_fotografie@gmx.de

Links:
Stuttgart Airport, Terminal 1
Stuttgart Airport, Terminal 2
The new building complements Terminal 1, which was designed by gmp and completed in
1991. The characteristic design features of Terminal 1 – the treeshaped columns of the load-
bearing structure and the dikeshaped building bar orientated towards the apron – were
continued throughout the extension. The roof of Terminal 3 is however dissolved into single
shed areas, in order to maintain the tree structure with an identical roof incline but a confined
building height. A total of 18 steel trees support the stepped roof (12 trees in Terminal 1). A
structural element projecting from the building bar provides the required building depth and
an increased floor area on the apron side. Spatially it is connected to the succinct main bar
building, but visually it is separated with glass roof lights.

The occupied floor area and circulation routes of the 40 check-in desks centrally located in
two parallel rows in the departure hall were designed more generously than in Terminal 1.
Four additional passenger bridges allow a comfortable entry into the aircrafts. On the street
side, the arrival hall connects both terminals as a mall over a length of 260m. The simple and
obvious positioning of the access elements and voids allowing vertical visual links guarantee
an immediate orientation in the new "Terminal of Clarity". Without any detours passengers
can reach Terminal 3 with the suburban railway, a lift directly connects the platform to the
arrival level of the terminal.