Archello Awards 2025: Open for Entries! Submit your best projects now.
Archello Awards 2025: Open for Entries!
Submit your best projects now.

La Palma airport

Over the check-in desk and baggage claim rooms, the roof isa water plane that extends visually to the Atlantic. On thiswater plane are set uneven volumes containing restaurantsand trade concessions with views to the water of the roofand to the sea water. Over the water planes cafe terraceswill be installed. Concessions are put into an elongatedboarding dock on the airside. Over the departure floorraises the transparent volume of the technical block.The floors were deeply staggered one above another, sothat the volume of the building is lost on the water side,towards it provides a smaller scale. An exempt prism, ofblack stone, which slopes toward the Atlantic, emphasizesmore the slope character of the building.


The exterior is built with black stone, glass and some whiteplanes.The rocky shoreline fissures will resound on the foldedperimeters of concessions. In this way, the wrinkledorography of the natural pools will not be reduced, on thecontrarry, the airport will imbue of the sharp character ofthe coast.

Project credits

Project data

Project Year
2001
Category
Airports
Share or Add La Palma airport to your Collections