Antalya International Airport Terminal II

The project, which won the first prize in the competition held by the State Airports Authority for the Antalya Airport terminal building, was commissioned in 1998. Six years after the opening of the first unit, following a much faster than expected increase in passenger numbers, the General Directorate of State Airports Authority decided to build a second unit to increase capacity without changing the principles of the initial project. With this approach, a basement floor was added to the landside of the building, and the landside block was expanded both laterally and longitudinally.

While the first unit was planned to serve 5 million passengers per year, the second unit was enabled to serve 8 million passengers per year following these changes. The baggage sorting section, which was planned on the ground floor of the two-story airside block in the first unit, was moved to the landside basement in the second unit, allowing the gained floor space to be used for departure waiting lounges. Architecturally, the exterior character of the first unit, which used white aluminum composite panels, was fully preserved. However, the steel-structured, truncated cone-shaped roof covering the central airside space in the first unit was designed in the second unit with a curved form and a translucent tensile Teflon membrane. The structure was completed in a short period of 11.5 months and opened for service in April 2005.