International airport in Ashgabat
information:
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status
project -
date
2011 -
place
Turkmenistan, Ashgabat -
function
Transport / Airport
Nikita Yavein /
TurkmenistanCompany: /
TurkmenistanDesign Team
Architects: N.I. Javein, V.I.Lemehov, A.P. Yar-Skryabin, M.Tsybin. In cooperation with U.N. Ashmetjev, M.S.Vinogradova, A.S. Anisina
Partners and Clients
OOO "Vozrozhdenie"
Archi.ru about this project:
12.12.2011
Anna Martovitskaya. Flying Carpet in the Desert
Architectural workshop “Studio 44” has come up with a concept for Ashkhabad's new international airport that is supposed to be build 35 kilometers away from the capital of Turkmenistan.
The project is based on Turkmen ethnical national patterns – eight-pointed star of Oguz-Khan and “goelis” the basic structural elements of Turcoman rugs. The flying carpet image was the first thing that came to the architects’ minds once they started... more