Cultural Tradition Dictates Design

While the terminal would be a modern building, deploying the latest construction and operational technology, it would echo the great building tradition of the Korean peninsula in its form and materials — with sloping roofs, compositional axial symmetry, traditional patterns of Korean retail street life, and displays of Korean artifacts and art, and employing steel, wood, and concrete.

Drawing on a vocabulary of forms and spaces in the tradition of Korean architecture, the airport would be endowed with generous daylight throughout, and would be a significant, contemporary design, capturing the spirit of Korea.