kabasch
07-28-2010, 07:55 AM
When I started in the age of 14 years (1987) to bild a model of Zurich airport for my 1:600-Schabak-die-cast models, there was always the idea to have a very realistic look. So I put my attention to the architecture and built the Terminals A and B with docks and parking garages (see thread "Zurich-Kloten") with the help of 1:1000 plans of the airport authority. I built small aircraft-stairs made of paper and some vehicles. The latter case was troublesome in the previous computer-age and I said goodbye to the idea to build the vehicles.
Similarly, I was dissatisfied with the tarmac, lined with crayons and I set the architectural models on neutral grey board. In the late nineties, I started again with some airport vehicles and craft sheets on the Freehand-program to draw. Due to time constraints and given the great effort died this idea. The idea remained in my head, but I had no time for the model that was always stored in boxes. Three years ago I began to draw the tarmac using Adobe Illustrator and Google Earth. I also took the freehand data of the vehicles back out and continued to draw in Illustrator. In the last two years I printed the stuff on 80g-copy paper with a laser printer, and glued the vehicle's meet in a few hours. Containers are cutting wood (3 mm
edge). Borderline was to put together the cars that are smaller than a fingernail, but are also made of paper.
I limited myself but for this new-look on the Terminal B, the C-positions ("Charley") until to the manhole of the underground railway station ("Flughafenbahn") as well as the end of runway 34. The condition is almost the time of 1985-1990. Terminal A (which is as a model building would be present), I let off. The model of Terminal B (the model is twenty years old!) I pepped up a little. Unfortunately, it is a bit yellowed.
The real Terminal B in Zurich is now quite deformed. Dock B, who is shown in the model, was in operation until 2003, stand long as an "event-dock" and was canceled last year and is currently replaced by a glass-steel-dock called also "dock B". The main building behind it is now surrounded by other buildings, but as Check-In 2 in operation. The restaurant (the brown box to the left of the main building) was already replaced by the "Airside Center". The Terminal B, opens in 1975 for handling large capacity aircrafts, was the pride of the airport in the seventies. The steel-frame building, clad with beige and gray prefabricated concrete slabs, was designed by Brothers Pfister Architects Zurich. The inside was developed with precious materials and typical elements of that time. The shopping center (called "Airport Plaza" on the airport railway station below the parking building) was provided with Pirelli rubber floor (I remeber well the characteristic "tac tac"-noise generated when rolling about it with the luggage-trolley).
Bronze, brown and blue dominate the Terminal B interior. The interior of the shopping center was orange and ocher. Terminal B was a building that breathed the spirit of that time. Only few views to the planes, trough brown tinted glass. Mainly illuminated by artificial light (only the main building is natural skylight
illuminated from above), a kind of bunker. But every Swiss knew the great observation deck on the dock! No child was never there. I liked the terminal B, even if he has never received an architecture award. He has a sculptural and raw character. New glass-steel-airport-buildings often ails that.
Kabasch
The real Terminal B in Zurich:
http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/default/view.jsp?recordView=1280314167417.SearchResult_Pre view
http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/default/view.jsp?recordView=1280314167417.SearchResult_Pre view
http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/default/view.jsp?recordView=1280314167417.SearchResult_Pre view
http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/default/view.jsp?recordView=1280314167417.SearchResult_Pre view&page=18
Similarly, I was dissatisfied with the tarmac, lined with crayons and I set the architectural models on neutral grey board. In the late nineties, I started again with some airport vehicles and craft sheets on the Freehand-program to draw. Due to time constraints and given the great effort died this idea. The idea remained in my head, but I had no time for the model that was always stored in boxes. Three years ago I began to draw the tarmac using Adobe Illustrator and Google Earth. I also took the freehand data of the vehicles back out and continued to draw in Illustrator. In the last two years I printed the stuff on 80g-copy paper with a laser printer, and glued the vehicle's meet in a few hours. Containers are cutting wood (3 mm
edge). Borderline was to put together the cars that are smaller than a fingernail, but are also made of paper.
I limited myself but for this new-look on the Terminal B, the C-positions ("Charley") until to the manhole of the underground railway station ("Flughafenbahn") as well as the end of runway 34. The condition is almost the time of 1985-1990. Terminal A (which is as a model building would be present), I let off. The model of Terminal B (the model is twenty years old!) I pepped up a little. Unfortunately, it is a bit yellowed.
The real Terminal B in Zurich is now quite deformed. Dock B, who is shown in the model, was in operation until 2003, stand long as an "event-dock" and was canceled last year and is currently replaced by a glass-steel-dock called also "dock B". The main building behind it is now surrounded by other buildings, but as Check-In 2 in operation. The restaurant (the brown box to the left of the main building) was already replaced by the "Airside Center". The Terminal B, opens in 1975 for handling large capacity aircrafts, was the pride of the airport in the seventies. The steel-frame building, clad with beige and gray prefabricated concrete slabs, was designed by Brothers Pfister Architects Zurich. The inside was developed with precious materials and typical elements of that time. The shopping center (called "Airport Plaza" on the airport railway station below the parking building) was provided with Pirelli rubber floor (I remeber well the characteristic "tac tac"-noise generated when rolling about it with the luggage-trolley).
Bronze, brown and blue dominate the Terminal B interior. The interior of the shopping center was orange and ocher. Terminal B was a building that breathed the spirit of that time. Only few views to the planes, trough brown tinted glass. Mainly illuminated by artificial light (only the main building is natural skylight
illuminated from above), a kind of bunker. But every Swiss knew the great observation deck on the dock! No child was never there. I liked the terminal B, even if he has never received an architecture award. He has a sculptural and raw character. New glass-steel-airport-buildings often ails that.
Kabasch
The real Terminal B in Zurich:
http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/default/view.jsp?recordView=1280314167417.SearchResult_Pre view
http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/default/view.jsp?recordView=1280314167417.SearchResult_Pre view
http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/default/view.jsp?recordView=1280314167417.SearchResult_Pre view
http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/default/view.jsp?recordView=1280314167417.SearchResult_Pre view&page=18