CAPATI, RIA L.

Ifugao eyes own airport (Local)

DESIGN 9/SEC13

Friday, April 08, 2016

By
MARIA ELENA CATAJAN Sun.Star Baguio

IFUGAO Governor Dennis Habawel is not losing hope in the dream to have an airport in
the province.
Habawel said despite receiving ridicule for his plans, he is not losing hope the project will
see light when all studies are finished.
Since last year, plans to set up an airport in the provincial capital and have progressed
into creation of feasibility studies presented to both the Civil Aviation Administration of
the Philippines (Caap) and Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (Tieza).
Habawel said once the tourism master development plan is completed, it will be
presented to Tieza anew.
The governor said if the plan pushes through, it will undergo a process from the NCIP as
well as get the necessary Environmental Compliance Certificates.
Habawel said an airport will further boost tourism as well as economy of the province
reaching both the AB crowd as well as the CDE markets.
Department of Tourism studies show airports in the perimeters of the region will help
boost connectivity of the Cordilleras.
The completion of the Lallo Airport in Cagayan as well as the Bagabag Airport in Nueva
Viscaya will be able to service parts of the region further improving travel conditions to
the highlands.
The airport is expected to complement the Cagayan Freeport, an economic zone 12
hours from Manila with new facility cutting down travel time to the logistics hub into a
one-hour plane ride and a 40-minute drive.
The activation of the Bagabag Airport in Nueva Vizcaya will bring the Mountain Province
and Ifugao areas closer, making land trips to both spots easier.
Airports in the perimeters of the region contribute to the growing accessibility of the
Cordilleras despite failed attempts to revive the Baguio Loakan Airport.
The Clark Airport in Angeles, Pampanga was designed to declog the NAIA and cater to
northern Luzon passengers accessing a host of budget airlines offering cheap flights.

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Eco-Friendly airport to rise in Panglao, Bohol (Local)

May 27, 2015

From the Department of Transportation and Communications DOTC, MitsubishiChiyoda seal deal for New Bohol Airport Project
A world-class, eco-friendly
airport will soon rise in
Bohol. The Department of
Transportation
and
Communications (DOTC)
and
winning
bidder,
Japanese joint venture
Mitsubishi Corporation and
Chiyoda Corporation holds
a ceremonial signing of the
New
Bohol
(Panglao)
Airport Project today.

Source: DOTCPhilippines

Tourists in Bohol continue to grow each year that passes. Unfortunately, the current
airport may not be able to accommodate the increase over time. This gives us the
need to cater to the increasing number of tourists and this means modernizing and
expanding the airport with a design that is of international standards. said DOTC
Secretary Jun Abaya.
The P 7-Billion project will
commence in June and is expected
to be completed within thirty (30)
months or in 2017 to early 2018.
The New Bohol Airport will
replace
the
current
Bohol
gateway, Tagbilaran Airport,
which is the eleventh (11th)
busiest airport in the country. Source: DOTCPhilippines
Tagbilaran airport catered to
around 789,800 passengers in 2013 despite its size of
square meters.

only

850

The first greenfield airport under the Aquino Administration is ten times bigger than
the Tagbilaran Airport, with a floor area of around 8,800 square meters, boosting the
annual passenger capacity to 1.7 million passengers.In line with Bohols eco-tourism
branding, the airport will have environmentally friendly and energy saving features
such as the installation of LED lights. To add to that, only the pre-departure area will
have air conditioning, operating with solar powered energy while the rest of the areas
will be open.
In order to provide better service for passengers, the DOTC is also in the process of
bidding out the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of the airport. The winning
bidder will take over O&M upon the completion of civil works.
dotc.gov.ph

Three airports in the Philippines among best airports in Asia (Local)

(philstar.com) | Updated October 27, 2015 - 12:14pm

MANILA, Philippines - Mactan-Cebu

Iloilo International Airport (21st) and Clark
International Airport (24th) are included in
online travel site The Guide to Sleeping in Airports's top
airports in Asia.

International Airport (18th),

30 best

The recognition comes after Ninoy Aquino

International Airport (NAIA) was dropped
from the "world's worst airports" list.

Mactan-Cebu International Airport has been gaining

positive reviews worldwide because of the improved
In response, Gov.ph released a statement, sharing
International Airport has been
servicehow
and Mactan-Cebu
facilities.
gaining positive reviews worldwide because of the improved service and facilities. Among which are
as follows:
1.

Replacement of worn-out interiors such as counters, lighting, and ceiling boards

2.

Reconfiguration of the check-in lobby and waiting areas to free up more space

3.

Improved resort airport theme design, with abundant plant arrangement interiors

4.

Provision of new seats and furniture for added comfort

5.

Upgrading security procedures to lessen passenger queuing

6.

Construction of a greeters area

7.

Installation of new equipment, such as self-service check-in kiosks

In addition, Department of Transportation and Communications Secretary Jun Abaya remarked that
"this is just the beginning of our airport modernization efforts."
"A new international airport will be opened in Panglao and a vastly-improved airport will be launched
in Puerto Princesa; and the Davao, Iloilo, Bacolod, and Laguindingan airports will be expanded and
their operations upgraded," Abaya said.

Airport Passenger Terminal Planning and Design (Foreign)

Volume 1: Guidebook (page 13)
II.2 Terminal Planning and Design Project Process
This section of the Guidebook provides an overview of the terminal planning and design process
including the types of projects, types of services, and a typical approach associated with addressing
terminal facility projects.
II.2.1 Types of Projects
Terminal projects vary by an airports size, whether it is on a new site or is part of an existing
infrastructure, and also by its specic mission.
II.2.1.1 Large, Medium, and Small Hub Airport Terminals
One goal of this Guidebook is to provide planning and design guidelines that are appli- cable to the
majority of terminal projects including large, medium, and small hub airports as defined by the U.S.
Department of Transportation (U.S.DOT). It should be noted that the use of the word hub by
U.S.DOT does not imply that the airport is a connecting hub.
II.2.1.2 New, Expansions, and Renovations
Terminal planning and design projects can typically be categorized as either greenfield (a new
terminal on a new site) or the expansion or renovation of an existing terminal. In some cases there
may be a need to classify a project as a replacement terminal if it is to replace an existing terminal
with a totally new facility, but does not provide signicant additional aircraft gate or passenger
processing capacity. Signicant increases in passenger or aircraft activity can trigger the need for
additional environmental study requirements under the project purpose and need as presented in
Section III.7, Environmental Protection.
II.2.3 Typical Project Approach
Whether the project is a new terminal or the expansion/renovation of an existing facility, there is a
benet in using a consistent and thorough study approach to identifying a preferred terminal facility
solution.
II.2.3.1 Stakeholder Involvement
This section provides an overview of individuals and groups who have a special interest in, or
involvement with the terminal planning and design process. Referred to as stakeholders, these parties
are integral to the implementation process, and their contributions should be reected in its critical
path. The road to a successful terminal development program is paved through teamwork and interrelationships that offer open opportunities for participation and buy-in throughout the planning
process. Participants vary from airport to airport, and interests are almost invariably diverse.
It is the responsibility of the terminal planner to encourage, acknowledge, and as far as possible,
synthesize the input of all stakeholders. Conicts may occur, but they can be overcome through a
proactive process of communication. Listening and responsiveness are most important. Small issues

often escalate into big ones if they are not addressed quickly and responsibly. Carefully managed,
stakeholder buy-in should be there when it is needed. Stakeholder participants in the terminal
planning process are normally identied by the client; however, it is incumbent on the terminal
planning manager to recommend stakeholders who should be encouraged to participate. The most
successful planning processes are those that are kept open. Efcient stakeholder communication can
strengthen relationships that are important to the acceptance and support of a recommended plan.

Placemaking and airport-related urban development (Foreign)

Micha STANGEL, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
The notion of place has a basic significance for the trend of the sustainable urbanism, which calls for
a return to a traditional, harmonious, vital and wholesome urban space. In this approach placemaking
means a method of designing in which an emphasis is put on creating a unique specificity, a local
spirit of a place and at the same time on the optimal usage of local resources.
In the designing and development practice the idea of 'placemaking' has also a slightly different
meaning a concept of unique places attracting people with an interesting space and offering
attractive impressions and experiences. It is used while realizing commercial properties, such as
shopping centres, recreational centres or amusement parks. The used design measures often draw
on traditional urban spaces as those in which people feel well and comfortable, while designing
applies many measures in various scales to create the urban impression, e.g. dense frontage
development, creating an impression of space in a street or square, floor surfaces imitating cobbles,
shaping greenery or architectural details in a way which imitates open spaces, introducing urban
elements of architectural details, such as fountains, benches and the like. Successful examples of
creating commercial spaces which provide urban impressions may be realizations of firms which can
boast with the greatest successes in this field.
Perhaps then, rather than looking back to traditional urbanism, we may consider the slogan of The
Jerde Partnership: 'We make places that attract millions of people; places that create huge social &
economic value; places that deliver memorable experiences; unique places'.
In
Airport-proximate zone as a place for people?
A public space, consisting of streets, squares, parks and the like, is essential for creating a vital,
wholesome urban space. Bustling places are public spaces together with the surrounding buildings
and all the things that happen in the buildings and between them: economic activity, meetings, events,
everyday human problems and so on. Can a public space in such a sense be mentioned in
connection with an airport-proximate zone?
The notion of a public space is defined in different ways. In the actual meaning it is a non- private
space belonging to everyone. However, it can also be seen as a space of social interactions available
for the public, independently of property the tradition of such an approach goes back to the Nolli
map of Rome (1748). In this practical sense a public space may be a railway station concourse,
shopping centre or airport terminal.
Shaping a clear and functional public space in a structure of new buildings complexes is an important
element of the space quality in a city. According to Lorens (2006), a subjectively perceived beauty of a
place becomes an objective economic category, which currently determines the price of the space
and the market value of the location. In this way, an attractive space is not only a question of
aesthetics, but also of increasing the economic value (the so-called central park effect). In order to

take advantage of public frontages, among them walking on foot, numerous architectural measures
are important floors, architectural details, a method of shaping greenery, lighting, elements of artistic
decor and the like. Also in the case of airports open spaces are currently a subject of creative
searching for new forms and solutions. There are proposed new forms of architectural details or
unconventional shapes of flooring to create unique impressions. Spaces at the Heathrow or Wrocaw
Airports may serve as examples.
3.1 Themed spaces and narrative places
Investing new commercial spaces with features of an urban space may lead in an extreme form to the
so-called theming, also called disneyfication, which means replacing a real space with its unreal safe
counterpart, devoid of many features of the prototype and consisting of forms non-existing anywhere
in reality, linked with creating an urban spectacle meant for a mass audience (Lorens, 2006).
Innovative design can provide additional value, such as beauty, sense of place, pleasurable
experiences, building local identity. The additional value of public space can include transmitting local
heritage in spatial forms. Dennis Frenchman proposed the concept of narrative places - spaces which
transmit the multiplicity of stories heritage, culture, history - of people and events that inhabit the
city, and noted that heritage development is an aspect of the information economy (Frenchman,
2001). He claims that the growth of interest in heritage is not being pushed by a yearning for the past,
but pulled by forces that are creating the future. Designing interpretative places is raising challenges
not only in terms of how to physically construct them, but also choosing what messages they should
carry. Spaces which transmit the multiplicity of stories of people and events that inhabit the city play
an important role in cities in the so called experience economy. Cities devote much of their energies
to the management of information and transmitting their qualities and heritage, to present a unique
spatial form and experience, relating to heritage and culture. The themes range from historic heritage
and serious cultural issues, to interpretations of popular culture, folk stories, fairy tales, etc.
It seems that this trend appears increasingly often also at airports, especially the huge hubs, where
passengers spend a lot of time. Schiphol offers several ways to give passengers the impression of
Holland in a nutshell' Those who have more time may go by train to the centre of Amsterdam or use
the Floating Dutchman - an amphibious bus (Amfibus) offering a several-hour journey from the airport
to the city and back. The Holland Boulevard was constructed in the terminal's transit zone, which
imitates lights of a street in Amsterdam and offers, among other things, cafes, casino, stalls with
tulips and seats in giant cups as well as sitting rooms. Another question is aviation theming, for
instance KLM shop, in whose design there were used imitations of parts from a passenger airplane of
a natural size or airport playgrounds

Source: FORM, IMAGE AND

CHARACTER OF AIRPORT
BUILDINGS, AND THEIR
TRANSFORMATION (Foreign)
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI COLLEGE
OF ARCHITECTURE AND
ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF THE
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
& BUILDING SCIENCE
BAR 613: RESEARCH THESIS
ONGWAE DENNIS AARON