April Yang, AIA, Principal Architect, April Yang Design Studio, USA

Speaker Biograghy: April is one of the 2007 WELD (Women for Economics & Leadership Development) top female executives in Ohio, USA. She has 30 years' architectural experience with an emphasis on large-scale airport planning and design. She believes that the transportation/infrastructure type of architecture is a great instrument to connect people, and a necessary means to communicate with different communities. The project usually requires big development and sometimes redundancy. She tries to reduce the building volume and respect the land value in order to escape from the modern architectural mythology of 'landmark building'. April has led Guangzhou New Baiyun Airport Terminal 1, Concourse 3 and Terminal 2, Pudong Airport Terminal II conceptual design, Shenzhen International Airport T3 concept design development, Quanzhou Jinjiang Airport terminal expansion and renovation, Mid International Airport International Terminal expansion and existing terminal renovation in Taiwan.


Day 2 - 21 March
Session: Airport Design, Planning & Development - Middle East & Asia

16:40 - 17:05 - Innovative terminal solution in a confined land area
Synopsis: In 2004, CAA Taiwan relocated Taichung Airport (RMQ) from Taichung City centre to the current Ching-Chuan-Kang (CCK) Air Force Base, which is the largest one in Taiwan. The cross-strait and international passenger volume has increased dramatically since 2009, and the airport’s international terminal is situated in a very tight land pocket in the southwestern corner of the base. It is a great challenge to renovate the existing terminal in a very constrained site in order to accommodate the rapid growth. On top of that, with the economic and political situation factors in mind, it is extremely important to provide a flexible design solution.

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