ARCHITECTURAL

DESIGN 08

DESIGN BRIEF
PLATE 01 02 & 03 Dr. Runddy D. Ramilo
PhD (Arch) APEC + ASEAN Architect
LEED Green Associate
RIBA Assoc AIA UAP
“Sustainable Airport Terminal Development for the Future”

1. Design Problem & Objective: A famous airport developer in India entered into their
third joint venture arrangement with a big developer-contractor in the Philippines. The first
joint venture was the Mactan International Airport Terminal and the second was the
recently inaugurated Clark International Airport Terminal.

The joint venture company was registered with SEC under the name GMR-
Megawide Joint Venture with the objective to expand the existing air transport
hub of the Philippines and its economy by increasing and improving the existing
Davao International Airport by 5 times through designing “Sustainable Airport
Terminal of the Future”. The existing Davao International Airport will remain
untouched, but the proposed new terminal will be a new development and will be
called Davao International Airport Terminal 2.
A. Airport Terminal – as per international standard an aiport terminal building
should be design with complete amenities. The architect should conduct indepth
research on what amenities and facilities could be added to ascertain that the
development is with state of the art advance technology for an airport design of the
future.

- Quarantine area
▪ Ground floor - Arrival:
- Transit passenger waiting area
- Curbside – drop-off and pick-up
- Offices
- Waiting area
- Duty free
- Customs check area
- Public toilets
- Baggage distribution area
- Aircraft bridges
- Baggage claim area
- Other amenities deemed needed
- Immigration check area
- Health check area
▪ Second floor - Departure:
- Curbside – drop-off and pick-up
- Health check area and quarantine
- Security check area and quarantine
- Immigration check area
- Check in area (with airline check-in counters and automated kiosks)
- Baggage pick-up and distribution area
- Big waiting area
- Immigration check
- Offices
- Rentable areas for retail stores, massage, coffee shops and restaurants (after
immigration check)
- Rentable spaces for airline business lounge
- Pre-departure waiting areas
- Transit passenger waiting areas
- Aircraft bridges
B. Shopping Mall – a small 3 storey shopping mall should be provided. It has
restaurants and retail stores which can be an extension of duty free. This
shopping mall should have an instagramable features just like the Changi
Terminal 1 in Singapore.

- Rentable spaces for retail stores

- Rentable spaces for restaurants
- Public toilets each floor
- Open void for exhibition with skylight
- Admin office
- Space for utilities (mechanical and electrical room, etc )
C. Airport Hotel – The 100-guestroom hotel will cater transit travelers and international
tourist going to beautiful places of Mindanao and Visayas. It should be at least 4-star hotel
category as per Department of Tourism (DOT). The hotel will be operated by Hyatt Regency. The
architect should ascertain the maximum number of levels as mandated by the Civil Aviation
Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).

▪ Ground Floor
- Porte cochere for hotel and ballroom
- Main Lobby with reception, concierge, lobby lounge, lounge bar and baggage storage.
- Front of the house office
- All day dining (no need to provide specialty restaurant as the hotel is just adjacent to the mall)
- Public toilets.
- Business Center
- Ballroom and meeting rooms
- Back of house (main kitchen, laundry, office etc)
▪ Second floor to succeeding floors (architect should decide)
- Spa and gym
- Swimming pool
- Executive Lounge
- Guestrooms (Standard King/Twin, Junior Suite, Executive Suite and
Presidential Suite).
- Housekeeping room on each guestroom floor.
D. Office Building – a medium rise office building to cater small and medium
size office spaces. The space could be rentable to travel agency and other offices
that would support travel and tourism. The architect should ascertain the
maximum number of levels as mandated by the Civil Aviation Authority of the
Philippines (CAAP).

▪ Ground Floor
- Drop-off for the office
- Main Lobby with reception and small seating
- Public toilets
- Space for utilities
- Rentable office spaces for small size company (no toilets inside the office)
- Rentable office spaces for medium size company (no toilets inside the office)
- Rentable office spaces for “Business Process Outsourcing” or Call Center
(no toilets inside the office). This should be located at the upper floors.
▪ Second floor to succeeding floors (architect should decide)
- Rentable spaces for small size office
- Rentable spaces for medium size office
- Common hallways
- Public toilets
- Space for utilities

E. Support Areas and Facilities – these are the utilities, gen sets, sewage treatment
plant, material recovery facility and number of parking that is mandatory needed for
the development. The architect should provide a parking slots that will cater for the
airport terminal, the mall and the hotel. It should provide parking for tourist vans and
persons with disability.
2. Project Site Features: The existing old site of the Davao International Airport will
remain as is. Just like Mactan Airport Terminal 2, the new airport and other developments will be
beside the existing. You as the architect have to decide the location and the size of the new lot
and make sure that all the space requirements are taken care.

The façade design of the airport should reflect a distinct feature Mindanao culture or its
products in a modern way. It can non-linear forms and design-like of Zaha Hadid but in
a “Sustainable Design Manner”. It should certainly reflect Philippine culture, traditions
and products of Mindanao. The architect should make sure that the form should not look
like the Clark and Mactan International Airport which was already over copied. The
architect should make sure that the development is “instagramable”.

Make sure that the development is in compliance with all the Philippine Building Laws
including the laws that govern the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines in terms of
the height of the structures.
3. Research Component: Aside from the usual drawing
requirements (floor plans, elevations, perspectives and sections) the
architect is required to submit a research component. Through research
from acceptable literature, the research paper should outline the
following:

a. What amenities, facilities and feature should be added to design an

airport terminal of the future?

b. What can be done to improve an airport design that would consider

Filipino culture?

c. With the current pandemic, what can be added to mitigate virus

transmission from local and international travels?
4. Timelines and Drawing Requirements

▪ Plate 01 Prelim Submission (08 & 09 March)

- Design narratives of the whole development

- Mood images of all buildings
- Massing, form and concept iterations of terminal and mall building
- Final floor plans, elevations & 3d perspectives of terminal building
- Final floor plans, elevations & 3d perspectives of mall building
- Axonometric plans of terminal and mall Component
- Zoning, traffic and accessibility diagrams
- Shadow, daylighting, wind, energy analysis using Revit or equivalent
- Master site development plan of the whole development
- Research proposal
▪ Plate 02 Midterm Submission (19 & 20 April)

- Massing, form and concept iterations of hotel building

- Final Floor Plans, Elevations & 3d Perspectives of Hotel Component
- Blow-up plans of Guestrooms
- Axonometric Plans of Hotel Component
- Shadow, daylighting, wind, energy analysis using Revit or equivalent
- Preliminary research paper
- To be merged with all Plate 01 drawings
Plate 03 Final Submission (30 & 31 May)

- Massing, form and concept iterations of office building

- Final floor plans, elevations & 3d perspectives of office building
- Axonometric plans of office building
- Shadow, daylighting, wind, energy analysis using Revit or equivalent
- Final Master Site Development Plan
- Final Research paper
- To be merged with all Plate 01 drawings
- To be merged with all Plate 02 drawings
Thank you