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The new gatekeepers of the award-winning second terminal at Mactan-Cebu airport have subverted the steel-clad norm by utilising nautical motifs, handcrafted tiles, and plentiful wood<\/p>\n

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This airport recently won the Completed Buildings-Transport category in the World Architecture Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kenneth Cobonpue has long been familiar with the flying options out of Cebu. In fact, the old Mactan-Cebu International Airport was a portal to adventure for the renowned designer well before he was creating bespoke furniture for the likes of Barack Obama, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember, as a kid, sitting on handmade hardwood benches with carvings,\u201d Cobonpue says of the old terminal, which was formerly a US airbase before it was commandeered for public air travel back in 1966. \u201cIt was quite dark, but it was like walking into an old Filipino home.\u201d<\/p>\n

With his involvement in the award-winning new second terminal at the airport \u2013 the second-busiest in the Philippines after Manila \u2013 the Cebuano has come full circle.<\/p>\n

Cobonpue, along with Hong Kong architecture firm Integrated Design Associates Ltd. (IDA) and Filipino design powerhouse BUDJI+ROYAL Architecture+Design, pooled their visions for the airport\u2019s second terminal\u2014the Philippines\u2019 first airport-centric public-private partnership (PPP) agreement.<\/p>\n

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Interior designer Budji Layug (left) and architect Royal Pineda (right), founders of the practice budji+royal, were invited to \u2018bring the soul of the Philippines\u2019 into the design of Mactan-Cebu International Airport Terminal 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The much-anticipated PHP17.5-billion (USD340 million) project opened in July 2018 and, four months later, won the CAPA Aviation Award for Asia Pacific Airport of the Year.<\/p>\n

The design luminaries constellated at the prodding of GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC), which won the concession to run the airport in December 2013. The consortium, composed of Filipino general contractor Megawide Construction Corporation and Bangalore-based infrastructure developer GMR Group, bid PHP33 billion for the contract to Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) the terminals over a 25-year period ending 2039.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very fluid process with IDA and Kenneth,\u201d says Royal Pineda, principal architect and CEO at BUDJI+ROYAL. \u201cWe freely talk about our thoughts and our visions, and we all understand that at the end of the day, everything should reinforce the project\u2019s main objective.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Terminal 2 of the Mactan Airport has a very open layout, thanks to an intricate network of glulam spruce beams, rafters, and pillars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roping in GMR was an inspired choice by Megawide. Having elevated, in only a decade, Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport from one of the world\u2019s most vilified air hubs to an Airport Service Quality (ASQ) award winner, GMR\u2019s involvement somehow dissociates Mactan from Manila\u2019s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), which is also consistently rated among the world\u2019s shoddiest airports.<\/p>\n

It was critical to involve private sector in the project, points out Cobonpue. \u201cThe rules governing public construction \u2013 like the bidding process, for example \u2013 make it very difficult to create something really unique and monumental. Bureaucracy can really constrain us, creatively. Working with private sector opens the possibility to build something we can all be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most airport terminals tend to be very cold, typically using industrial materials like concrete, glass, and steel. The Mactan airport, in contrast, uses materials that give a very warm feeling: the use of wood, the handwoven counters, the handcrafted tiles with randomised patterns to mimic sand underfoot<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

GMCAC officially took over operations from the state-run Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) in November 2014. Construction of Terminal 2 began in June 2015. Led by its founder Winston Shu, IDA was tasked with preparing the preliminary designs of the terminal. Visualised as a silhouette of pointed roofs, in the vein of sails, the initial concept received pushback from the Filipino designers as sails were not endemic to seafarers around Mactan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no sailing around because we don\u2019t have the winds capable of blowing sails. So, we patterned the roof after the waves of the ocean instead,\u201d says Cobonpue.<\/p>\n

More:\u00a0<\/strong>Philippine airport outshines Singapore Changi at World Architecture Festival<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

To create the terminal\u2019s superstructure, the consortium favoured wood over steel. Megawide imported 4,500 square metres of glue-laminated (glulam) spruce from Austrian timber company Rubner Holzbau. The \u201cwaves\u201d on the roof are a succession of 10 glulam arches, each 30 metres wide. Reaching heights of 18 metres, the eye-catching arches call to mind the ceilings of the cathedrals that dot the Philippines, a predominantly Catholic nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost airport terminals tend to be very cold, typically using industrial materials like concrete, glass, and steel. The Mactan airport, in contrast, uses materials that give a very warm feeling: the use of wood, the handwoven counters, the handcrafted tiles with randomised patterns to mimic sand underfoot,\u201d Cobonpue says.<\/p>\n

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Born and raised in Cebu, industrial designer Kenneth Cobonpue gave the terminal its distinct Cebuano character with woven counters and precisely handmade elements<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than its architectural aesthetic and structural integrity, the use of glulam made for \u201ca very good, progressive construction approach,\u201d avers Pineda. Glulam was strong but pliable enough to create the terminal\u2019s intricate complex of freestanding Y-shaped parabolic pillars, x-braced rafters, and parallel braced beams. Together they lessened the number of columns, resulting in a very open internal volume. The curvilinear glulam beams comprising the underbelly of the arches are left exposed, akin to the hull of a boat. \u201cThe roof design feels very nautical and echoes how boats in the Philippines were once made,\u201d informs Cobonpue.<\/p>\n

Daylight soaks the 65,000-square-metre terminal. Skylights of tempered glass run along the roof apex, while a glazed fa\u00e7ade encloses both ends of the terminal. Crushed, iridescent mother-of-pearl shards, embedded in the terrazzo, glisten in the sunlight. \u201cThe concept of the airport is to have a tropical island resort experience. As its roof silhouette reminisces the waves of Cebu waters, its interiors exude its famous tropical beaches, simulating the walk on sand, complete with shells dotting its seashore,\u201d says Pineda.<\/p>\n

Such design flourishes ground the airport in a Cebuano identity separate from a generic sense of Filipino pride. \u201cThe woven counters and the mothers-of-pearl on the tiles are uniquely Cebu. You can\u2019t find those in Manila,\u201d says Cobonpue. His team welded extruded aluminium onto the Terminal\u2019s 48 check-in counters\u2014it has room for 72\u2014to create open lattices around which they wove recyclable polyethylene. LED backlights illumine the lattices and change colours according to season, given that the Philippines is \u201cbig on holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The terminal has almost 50 check-in counters featuring handwoven lattices with seasonal led lights. The counter heights are purposely low to accommodate shorter passengers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The low heights of the counters betray the terminal\u2019s oriental leanings. \u201cMany of the visitors, if not most, are likely to be Asian, so the check-in desks are designed accordingly. Asian countries, including the Philippines, tend to proportion everything to be much lower, in general, than in the US, for example. This lower height is also much more welcoming and open,\u201d says Cobonpue. The overall effect is a massive departure from the stateside airports to which Cobonpue has been accustomed. \u201cMost of the American airports I\u2019ve seen are quite old, and in need of a facelift. Perhaps they could incorporate a warmer and more organic aesthetic, [something] less industrial,\u201d says Cobonpue.<\/p>\n

Tech enhancements regale passengers after check-in. The terminal\u2019s automatic tray return system (ATRS), for example, is a first for any Philippine airport. Veripax, a passenger reconciliation system pioneered at the original terminal in 2016, authenticates boarding passes in seconds, expediting passenger flow.<\/p>\n

A year earlier, Mactan airport had earned notices at the Autodesk BIM Awards for IDA and engineering firm Arup\u2019s work on assessing the line-of-sight from the control tower. \u201cTechnology played an important role in every step of the process\u2014from the computation of the load of the roof, beams and trusses, to the speed and efficiency with which they were assembled, and the precision and fit of the handmade counters,\u201d Cobonpue says. Walls near the Terminal 2 restrooms are carpeted with live moss, improving air quality and stabilising humidity. \u201cIt\u2019s a good touch to bring in something natural in the interiors,\u201d Pineda says.<\/p>\n

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Strong but pliable, glulam wood allowed designers to not only create vaulted roofs but also flat-ceilinged areas such as the arrival hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Passengers enjoy the last whiffs of Cebuano life in the terminal\u2019s retail component housing 3,000 square metres of gross leasable space. \u201cThe layout is very open to replicate the feel of walking through a bazaar. We wanted to capture the market culture in Cebu, and to replicate a village-like atmosphere. The shops aren\u2019t enclosed so they are more welcoming,\u201d says Cobonpue.<\/p>\n

Terminal 2 won Airport Bar of the Year at the Moodie Davitt Report awards in June for The Cabin, one of several F&B establishments run by the UK\u2019s SSP Group, which also serves New York\u2019s John F. Kennedy Airport.<\/p>\n

Last year Cebu registered around 5.5 million tourist arrivals, translating to 11.3 million people passing through the Mactan airport. With Terminal 2, the airport has increased its capacity to 12.5 million passengers a year, but the consortium is already steeling itself for at least 50 million.<\/p>\n

Passenger traffic in Cebu will reach about 28 million passengers per annum by 2039, according to Louie Ferrer, president of GMCAC. \u201cThis is traffic similar to major Asian airports such as Singapore, New Delhi and Kuala Lumpur. Part of our plan is to ensure MCIA will be able to avoid airfield congestion like the kind experienced by NAIA and continue efficient operations despite this increasing traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June 2017, the consortium gave the Philippine government a PHP208-billion investment proposal eyeing, among others, the construction of a second parallel independent runway\u2014Mactan would be the country\u2019s first airport to have two. It also pitched a third terminal, to rise on land reclaimed from Magellan Bay. The plans will effectively extend GMCAC\u2019s control over the airport to 50 years.<\/p>\n

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The terminal\u2019s visual appeal hinges on 18-metre-high arched ceilings made of glulam beams and bisected by tempered glass skylights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI believe building and running commercial transport terminals is an expertise. The government should recognise this to make sure that risks are reduced, and the success level of the project is optimised and ensured,\u201d Pineda says.<\/p>\n

BUDJI+ROYAL and Cobonpue are co-designing the expansion and retrofitting of the original terminal. \u201cWe want to surprise the people. It will be a tropical and airy T1 (Terminal 1). Working with the same building footprint, the renovated terminal will exhibit expansive sight lines and illusions of spaces. This will feature a more tropical atmosphere that brings in daylight and new scales of high ceilings. A sophisticated resort ambiance, featuring the culture, festivals and artistry of Cebu, will be experienced all throughout,\u201d Pineda says.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur vision for it is to create something more distinctly Filipino,\u201d promises Cobonpue.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in\u00a0Issue No. 156<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0PropertyGuru Property Report Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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