QINGDAO AIRPORT DESIGN BY RICARDO BOFILL
NEW AIRPORT FOR THE CITY OF
QINGDAO, IN THE CHINESE PROVINCE OF SHANDONG DESIGN BY RICARDO BOFILL
Strategically located, the city of
Shandong is part of a network of metropolis within the "Blue economic
Zone". This economic program promotes trade relations between the northern
countries Korea and Japan and Hong Kong.
In this regards, Qingdao has launched
a public competition for the design and construction of a new airport. The
scheme includes the design of the master plan and a new terminal, which should
give a boost to civil aviation, both passenger and cargo flights.
The new airport located 40 km north
of the city centre, on the west bank of Dagu river, will be part of the
national transport infrastructure. The new terminal, to replace the existing
one, will operate mainly domestic and cargo flights.
The design should allow phased
development within a 18.3 km2 site, to process 38 million passengers/year in
2025 and 58 to 60 million passengers/year in 2045.
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RICARDO BOFILL
Ricardo Bofill, born in 1939 in Barcelona, graduated from the
Barcelona University School of Architecture and the School of Geneva. In
1963 he gathered a multidisciplinary, multitalented group in order to confront
the complexity of architectural practice; architects, engineers, planners,
sociologist, writers, movie makers and philosophers, conformed what is known
today as the Taller de Arquitectura.
In Bofill’s work, History has been a constant presence, not only in the form of
the continuing analysis and interpretation of the culture and architecture of
the past, but also by means of the impetus given to new tendencies, to
involvement in the social movements of the day and the creation of alternative
responses to contemporary problems. The professional progress of the Taller de
Arquitectura, marked by the stimulus and the conception of life, the vital
vision of an inexhaustible Ricardo Bofill, has undergone a series of practical
and theoretical changes closely linked to the political and social transformations
of recent years. An analysis of the body of Bofill’s work as a whole reveals a
tremendous degree of coherence and a continuity of thinking that are the
product of a history and a language that are uniquely personal.
In his first period, Bofill recuperated the characteristic craft elements of
traditional Catalan architecture. Later on, he began to deal with urban
planning problems at a local level within the Spanish political and social
context. Because of the necessity to approach major projects, Bofill’s team
conceived a methodology based on the geometric formation of elements in space,
developed in a theoretical manner with the project The City in Space, and made
it concrete with the construction of Walden 7.
Interested in the urban planning problems of the developing countries, Bofill
transported a part of his team to Algeria where he collaborated with the
government in the urban planning and housing field. His work culminated two
years later with the construction of Houari Boumédienne Agricultural Village in
the south-eastern part of the country.
In 1971 he formed a complementary team in Paris, in response to the demands of
various projects for the French “New Towns”. During this phase, Bofill
introduced in his proposals symbolic elements directly related to the French
monumental architecture. La Petite Cathédrale and La Maison d’Abraxas are
examples of these inhabited monuments.
From 1979 on, the activities of Bofill’s Taller de Arquitectura took place
mainly in France, with the simultaneous construction of four projects: Les
Arcades du Lac and Le Viaduc in Versailles; Le Palais d’Abraxas, Le Théâtre and
L’Arc in Marne-la-Vallée; Les Echelles du Baroque in the XIV district in Paris;
as well as Antigone in Montpellier. His team settled in Paris and worked on the
industrialized construction of social housing.
Bofill’s design studies for precast concrete units contributed in the 80’s, to
the Taller’s affirmation of the validity of classical forms and geometry in
contemporary architecture. In the 90’s, the inclusion of glass and steel
amongst the materials used in his projects is simply the outcome of a process
marked by the study of and research into forms and materials.
In 2000 Bofill regrouped his activity in Spain. From his headquarters, a former
cement factory in the outskirts of Barcelona, Bofill’s Taller continues the
spirit and philosophy that motivated his team in the early 60s to
approach international projects from the large scale of urban design
contributing to a new "integrated urbanism”, which include the schemes for
Luxembourg’s Place de l’Europe, New Castellana in Madrid, Boston Central
Artery; large infrastructures for public transport, as the recent
Terminal 1 for Barcelona Airport; sports, cultural, and retail facilities in
Europe and Asia; both social and Class A residential buildings, from Dakar to
Stockholm, from Beijing to Paris; office buildings and headquarters
of leading companies in the US, France, Spain…
Ricardo Bofill’s reputation worldwide relies on the fact that no other architect
has continuously worked with success in so many countries. Many projects
worldwide validate his capacity to design in harmony with different local
cultures as the result of combining know-how and global experience.
RICARDO BOFILL
RICARDO E. BOFILL MAGGIORA
Ricardo E. Bofill
started at RBTA in 1992 as a model– maker summer–intern, was assistant at the
Rice summer Institute at the Taller, was later assistant Commercial Officer,
assistant Chief Architect, Chief Architect, was Head of RBTA China, Head of
India, before becoming President of the Company in 2012.
Ricardo focuses on
large–scale international urban projects, in which he resolves progressive
housing, mobility issues, ecology, as well as master planning for mega-cities.
He received his B.A in Architecture at Rice University, M. Archi at Harvard
University, M.A in Real Estate Development at Columbia University and Dipl in
Film Studies at UCLA. Ricardo has published 3 fictional novels (“Perséfone” in
1995, “Bajo mi Piel” in 1997 and “Yo no trago” en 2003) and directed the films
“Hot Milk” in 2003
and “Nietzsche” in
2010.
KEY PROJECTS
Dallas Trinity and
Downtown The Connected City. 2013, USA
Metropolis Village.
2013, Chennai, India
Great Moscow. 2012,
Moscow, Russia
Novoorlovskiy. 2012,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Signature III. 2011,
New Delhi, India
Smolniy. 2011, St.
Petersburg, Russia
W Hotel Barcelona.
2009, Barcelona Spain
Supeshine
Residences. 2004, Beijing, China
Shangri- La Hotel
and Residenes. 2004, Beijing, China
Casa Ananda. 2004,
Miami, USA
National Theatre of
Catalonia. 1997, Barcelona, Spain
www.biennale.ricardobofill.com
