BY PARKS KUGLE
The approach
Looking ahead
John Trupiano, the principal architect at Corgan, said the new terminal is designed to allow San Antonio’s medium airport hub to grow with its population. “San Antonio is a mid-sized hub, but it’s a mid- sized hub in one of the nation’s largest cities, and it’s important that we develop a facility that allows it to grow and really serve the demographics of the city,” Trupiano said. Aesthetically, the new terminal will reflect San Antonio’s unique culture and environment, featuring a riparian paseo entryway styled after the River Walk with local flora, a water feature, and an indoor-outdoor transition space. It will also include a live music stage, a mercado evoking the historic market square, and an expanded United Service Organization lounge for military personnel. On top of the expanded capacity and creating a sense of place, the terminal design prioritizes sustainability.
Scheduled to be completed late 2025 , the airport’s new ground loading facility will feature additional room for passengers on two levels and add three extra gates. Once completed, Terminal C will provide a 63% increase in the number of airport gates, and will create an estimated 16,000 jobs over its lifespan. Additionally, the ground transportation center—estimated to be completed in 2028 —will create better access to ground transportation options, such as ride-hailing services and taxis. Whyte believes the increased ease of travel provided by the terminal project will attract more businesses to San Antonio. “One of the things that [businesses] are always looking for when they’re looking at business partners or where to set up a headquarters or a second location is the ease of being able to get to and from that particular location,” Whyte said.
The mercado will feature live music in a space modeled after the Historic Market Square.
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The sustainable innovations in the design include low energy glazing glass panes, solar shades, natural light and using wastewater to water plants in the terminal. “Water is very critical in the region, [and] we want to be good stewards, so it gives us an opportunity with all the water that we have here that would otherwise just be sent somewhere else, [and] we can utilize [the wastewater] to water plants in the paseo,” O’Krongley said.
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