The city of Toulouse is not home to the TGV but to the European company Airbus. And yet Toulouse and its region welcome nearly 10,000 new inhabitants per year. These simple facts have consequences for airport traffic, which is constantly changing, and to which the Toulouse-Blagnac airport must adapt. The concept is therefore to create an extension in the form of a nodal plug-in, which is also a possible future link for further extensions.
The extension of Toulouse-Blagnac airport involves a redistribution of the sales areas located between the control areas and the boarding area. The work consists of creating a different vision of the string of shops and a common space dedicated to a presentation of the city's emblematic products.
Expansion on the basis of the nodal plug-in is a real technical challenge. Extending an airport means undertaking an organisation that envisages possible evolutions. The project therefore proposes the removal of a wall to maintain continuity in the spatial arrangement, and it is from this plug-in principle that the building takes shape. The wooden supporting structure, easily extendable, makes a future transformation of the airport possible. The arched linearity, inscribed around the runways of the old and future buildings, allows the circulation of passengers, the different zones and their functionalities, both security and technical, to be maintained intact; in the same way that the new piers are articulated with the runways and the link with the airport space. The site thus responds to different problems: technical difficulties, passenger flow, various zones with different functions, while making sense through the precision of their architectural links, thought out in an overall logic.