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Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by wcfrobert »

teruakohatu wrote: post #29

It looks beautiful. It talks about it being structural. Is it really? It looks more like a suspended ceiling below steel girders. Our largest airport (AKL) is in the process of rebuilding both domestic and international terminals. They are trying for a timber ceiling [1] with rubber floors [1]. It seems a confused design. > A ‘cost-effective’' mix of durable carpeted and rubber flooring was being used inside and tray…

It's a mix of steel and wood. Curved Glulam beams sits on top of massive steel trusses, which are mostly hidden from view. The steel trusses in turn sit on top of big Y columns. The roof is seismically isolated too.

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by tadfisher »

swalling wrote: post #66

The wood is pretty, but as someone who uses this terminal, the key improvement is that they raised the ceiling and significantly increased the amount of natural light. Here's a good photo of what it looked like before: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portland_Internation... The major functional drawback is that wayfinding for both arrivals and departures is much worse. The overall flow of foot traffic is way…

This is Phase 1. Phase 2 will replace the rest of the terminal structure (the part that was open during Phase 1 construction) and directly connect foot traffic to the gates. The long outer walkways are temporary and their walls will be removed.

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Post by ianburrell »

hipadev23 wrote: post #16
mofunnyman wrote: post #10

Certainly less miserable to look at inside than it was 20 years ago. Much better than the brutalist hell that is most of Portland.

Brutalist hell? It’s a vibrant city interlocked with greenery and flanked by Mt Hood

There are few Brutalist buildings around PSU.

Downtown has a lot of bland fifty year old buildings. But I like them more than the complicated new ones. But downtown also still has a lot of old buildings.

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by swalling »

tadfisher wrote: post #72
swalling wrote: post #66

The wood is pretty, but as someone who uses this terminal, the key improvement is that they raised the ceiling and significantly increased the amount of natural light. Here's a good photo of what it looked like before: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portland_Internation... The major functional drawback is that wayfinding for both arrivals and departures is much worse. The overall flow of foot traffic is way…

This is Phase 1. Phase 2 will replace the rest of the terminal structure (the part that was open during Phase 1 construction) and directly connect foot traffic to the gates. The long outer walkways are temporary and their walls will be removed.

Ah! I thought it was done, but that makes more sense now that I looked at https://www.pdxnext.com/Stories/Details/main-terminal-openin...

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by sverhagen »

It is stunning, indeed. Now, I was there a few days after this new area opened, to pick up some family, so I didn't go through the security check, but from a distance that part still looked like the same unwieldy bottleneck with the messy temporary-yet-permanent barrier belts. Some airports have already re-envisioned their security check, Amsterdam/Schiphol looks nice, I hope that's still in the works for Portland, instead of perpetuating this narrowing trap.

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by [deleted] »

directevolve wrote: post #68
teruakohatu wrote: post #29

It looks beautiful. It talks about it being structural. Is it really? It looks more like a suspended ceiling below steel girders. Our largest airport (AKL) is in the process of rebuilding both domestic and international terminals. They are trying for a timber ceiling [1] with rubber floors [1]. It seems a confused design. > A ‘cost-effective’' mix of durable carpeted and rubber flooring was being used inside and tray…

In Portland, we also have the world’s tallest mass timber building, Carbon12. Mass timber is definitely structural here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon12

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Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by efitz »

rootusrootus wrote: post #55
efitz wrote: post #34

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As far as I can tell, those guys mostly only exist in the fever dreams of online commentators.

Except when they're firebombing Portland: - https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=27143... - https://www.newsweek.com/molotov-cocktail-portland-protester...

Oh look, here's a video showing a guy lighting a firebomb and throwing it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMkTfGlM-f0&t=190s

Hmmm, left a bomb behind (guy was caught, extradited and sentenced to 4 years) - https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-portland-crime...

Analysis & statistics: - https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/portland-on-fire-the-s...

Stop gaslighting. We saw it.

Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy

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Post by bobthepanda »

Animats wrote: post #61

It looks like someone really liked wood slat room dividers [1]. Or maybe a lobbyist for the wood industry was involved. Wood slat partitions were seen in mid-century modern designs, when rooms became more open plan but some sense of division was needed. They were also used in the 1970s to make small cheap apartments look bigger. Still, it's good to see some US airports looking better. Most of the Asian countries have…

Timber is basically one of the founding industries of the PNW, so it’s perfectly appropriate and local for PDX to use it.
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