Fatma Kahraman
Check-in hall with tree columns
Role
Design Manager, Interior / Senior Architect
Typology
Airport
Location
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Date
2011–2013
Company
Bechtel ENKA Bahwan JV
Designer
Cowi-Larsen JV
Construction Designer
ENKA — Bahwan Engineering — Bechtel Engineering
Consultant
ADPI
Contractor
Bechtel-ENKA-Bahwan JV (Design & Build)
Client
OAMC — Oman Airport Management Company
Contract Value
1.8 billion USD (Passenger Terminal Building)

Oman awarded the 1.8 billion USD main contract for the new terminal at Muscat International Airport to a joint venture of Bechtel, ENKA and Bahwan Contracting. At 460 metres long and 200 metres wide, the 332,000 m² terminal triples the airport's capacity to 12 million passengers a year and includes a 90-room four-star hotel.

Fatma managed the interior architecture group of thirteen, preparing design development and issue-for-construction drawings against the tender documents of main designer Cowi-Larsen JV. The check-in hall's tree columns, the curved 'decorative portal' ceilings and the departures interiors were each detailed in plan, section and elevation and coordinated with the structural and MEP disciplines.

The project ran on a coordinated BIM model that tied together the procurement, interface management, planning, fire engineering, RFI, RDS, architectural design and detail groups — an early, large-scale application of model-based coordination on a Design & Build airport.

Terminal Area
332,000 m²
Capacity
12 million passengers / year
Footprint
460 m × 200 m
Terminal at night
Terminal at night
Check-in counters
Check-in counters
Escalator hall
Escalator hall
Arrivals hall
Arrivals hall
Departures concourse
Departures concourse
Roof structure under construction
Roof structure under construction
Aerial view of the site
Aerial view of the site
Tree column erection
Tree column erection
BIM model of the terminal
BIM model of the terminal
Column head details — check-in hall
Column head details — check-in hall
Decorative portal — section
Decorative portal — section
Coordinated BIM model diagram
Coordinated BIM model diagram