Jurgen mayer h. architects have came to the table serving up some very svelte forms and bold sweeping lines with their latest. The airport building in mestia, georgia is endeared to attract and boost tourism.
Sweeping lines all heading skyward, as a series of branches intertwine, offering a series of varied internal spaces and offering for an exciting airport experience.
Flying itself has become in a way a bit of a business-type function, something that just happens, robotic and cognitively. As a passenger, its not until the jet engines start to roar and the whole cabin is shaking, do you feel engaged with the enormity of what you’re about to embark upon. The airport part, the prelude if you will, to the excitement of opposing gravity, is so often about the building, and not the flying. Its about the suits having their business meetings in elusive and exclusive airline club lounges.
I feel this endeavour helps ground the meaning of it all, and starts to excite through the lines and forms.
This building is, I hope, the first of many to start to engage the passenger, visitor or employee… well before the diesel is churning and you’ve fastened you’re seatbelt.
This building is about flying. Point taken.
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