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Lighting is designed to aid navigation around the terminal
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This Chinese airport blends artificial and natural light to create an airy and easy-tonavigate space. Tobias Gourlay reports
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henzhen Airport’s Terminal 3 showcases a lighting system that enhances the passage of users from arrival to departure while complementing the building’s unusual design. The facility is in constant operation, so its lighting design needed to balance natural and artificial inputs across a 24-hour cycle. Designed by Italy’s Studio Fuksas to cope with burgeoning demand for air travel to and from the city in China’s Guangdong Province, the 1.5km-long new terminal building is wrapped in an undulating double-skin roof punctuated by thousands of hexagonal skylights, which together
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