The Amazing Madrid Barajas Terminal 4 by Richard Rogers + Estudio Lamela

Kevin Hui and Andrew Maynard exploring and sharing their thoughts on the best airport terminal in the world, the amazing Madrid Barajas Terminal 4, designed by Richard Rogers and Estudio Lamela.
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[@semajinc19]

Using a design challenge (colour matching) into Multiple solutions (wayfinding +aesthetics) is such a great example of design. Thanks for sharing!

[@Archimarathon]

Challenges under good designers are what make design

[@Zergcerebrates]

This is indeed a beautiful terminal. I was there in 2022 and was so amazed by it i went there a few hours early before my flight just to look at this amazing terminal. It’s really the details and this building is art, it’s just so aesthetically pleasing.

[@drvlive2023]

Things that I like: -The fact that designers still use hand made drawings for explanations of circulation, the roofing, etc. -The place seems light, or rather less stressful. I mean, it's not just a big box of high ceilings, people, conveyor belts, check in counters, etc., -It's a nice terminal to be in. It did not need to look too futuristic -The repetitive circles of the air holes at the edge of the floors, and as well as the lighting and the ceiling. Definitely one of the airports that I wish that I could be landing in someday.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks Dr V Live. Spain is such a power house of architecture and one of my favourite places to visit. Make sure you go fly into that terminal.

[@gabybordino6024]

Woohooo! I was so looking forward to seeing this episode! Terminal 4 is absolutely brilliant. A celebration of good architecture. Thanks heaps for making this video. Definitely one I’m gonna watch several times. I always enjoy analysing and understanding Rogers’ systems and organisation

[@joshua.m.mcbeath]

You guys are so uni-corny! 💕 another amazing video, such a joy to watch while learning some truly unique aspects to both its history and design 🙏

[@Archimarathon]

ba-dum ching

[@thomasrascati4340]

Love it. Thanks for sharing!

[@arnasagen8077]

I really appreciate all the effort that has gone into making sure there is decent amount of natural light, without cooking travellers

[@Archimarathon]

Shading is a simple thing yet often forgotten or not done effectively

[@mikeewin7544]

Hey, guys, I just got back from Madrid and Barcelona. Barajas Airport, spot on, what a joy to experience. Almost too many choices at the transportation kiosks were the only frustration. But the clarity and openness and warmth of the wood with concrete and metal was very calming. CaixaForum another thrill to navigate. The stairwells, the sperm light fixtures thankfully of soft material when you bump into them, then the Corten Steel lattice work recalling Spanish lacework truly magical. What a relaxing space in which to enjoy a cool drink. Sagrada Familia was the disappointment I expected in Barcelona and enjoyed more the Palace of Catalon Music for it's regional interpretation of Baroque. The labyrinth of old streets and oddly shaped plazas were the most memorable spaces of our trip. The design of blocks in the Eixample with cutoff corners makes so much sense for street function. The scale and wide sidewalks make these neighborhoods the most successful living environments I've ever visited. Thanks for your video visits and analyses I got to consider prior to visiting them. It helped a great deal.

[@Archimarathon]

So glad to hear you enjoyed your trip and our videos helped

[@Beba-qv3db]

My favorite airport. TY.

[@TheMariodeblas]

❤️💛💛❤️

[@Nynke_K]

Very cool! The curvy bamboo canopy and the transparent aerobridges remind me of Gardermoen, Oslo airport. The airy hall with wooden canopy is quite soothing too, but as complex it isn't nearly as transparent and of course it's hard to compete with the rainbow details 😄

[@arnasagen8077]

I was reminded of Gardemoen as well! Great minds! 😉

[@tarunifalconer]

Sending this immediately to friend who designs large commercial buildings for mining sector, WA.

[@aferre]

Yes you can clearly notice that it was designed for modern controls but there's a notable exception! Let me explain: I always find it awesome that T4 main building and T4S are designed for very different traffic flows and they all just fit so well in general. T4S original purpose is to have non-schengen flights, most of them are intercontinental (that's why it's assumed that longer transits through the airport are ok), but Barajas is also a hub airport so they also wanted to be able to have the possibility of same-building-transfers between schengen and non-schengen, so part of the T4S has 3 passenger floors: Schengen, non-schengen arrivals and non-schengen departures, and the connection fingers can be configured to connect any of the floors. T4 main building is much simpler in this regard as it was designed for Schengen only (incoming and outgoing people are mixed in the same space as there are no border controls involved). This worked very well except for two special cases... UK and Ireland. Those are not Schengen but both were EU. Having them in the intercontinental area wasn't good for anybody, and as they had freedom of movements and only needed a simple passport control and no customs, they installed a dedicated passport control at one of the T4 main building ends for accessing the last ~6 gates. That's indeed a retrofit. Don't know if that area is still used for UK flights, but back in the days, the airlines (Iberia or British Airways mainly), used to choose their subterminal for their UK-Madrid flights based on the connections that were sold with that flight.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for the detailed explanation

[@allweseeisglue]

A new way to burn my waiting time before a flight arrives 📌

[@bushraa5755]

Great insight!

[@Archimarathon]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@alexandercherry2202]

And here I was thinking that Andrew owns a wardrobe of black shirts

[@Archimarathon]

I don’t think I have ever seen him wear black shirt. (Meanwhile I am wearing a black shirt today 🤔)

[@faisalahmed5033]

love you too.😊

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks! And thanks for being the first comment.

[@rebeccaw9656]

Loving the architectural details, guys. What’s on the floor? It looks like giant polished concrete tiles, but with a parquetry pattern. It doesn’t seem to have the uniformity of bluestone or granite.

[@Archimarathon]

It’s stone. Very common in Spain in public buildings

[@Zergcerebrates]

Do you guys have plans to visit the Beijing Daxing Int. airport or the new Chengdu Tianfu Int. Airport? Would love to see your opinions about those.

[@Archimarathon]

No not yet and it seems most flights are still going through Capital Airport.

[@andrewmcgalliard8987]

'It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, 'as pretty as an airport. ' Wow. Turns out Douglas Adams was wrong.

[@Archimarathon]

Belgium!

[@grahama9791]

Great video. So when you fly out of terminal T4S it appears that you check your baggage in, get your boarding pass, go through security and immigration all in terminal T4, before going on the train over to T4S to board your flight. Is that correct? I'm doing this in a few months.

[@jess911]

Yep! Went through this process last summer

[@Archimarathon]

Yes T4S is all “air-side”

[@Dev1nci]

Many modern airports feel vast, scaleless and washed-out, this doesn't suffer from any of those things, it's great. Also, the roof needs to be drained with a pump because the columns meet the roof at the peaks instead of the troughs. One of the reasons for this is that the section is a bull's head with horns 😄.

[@んんんとゆうくに]

absolutely(o_bu_sa_ryuu_tu_ri)　obsoletely(A-BU-SO-RYU-TO-RI)

[@sportlol]

If you travel to Germany please make a video about the worst airport in the modern world: the Berlin airport.

[@Archimarathon]

😂