{"id":4411,"date":"2018-10-06T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T09:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metroarea.it\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:25:22","slug":"airport-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metroarea.it\/en\/airport-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

private airport terminal<\/span>
\nmuscat, oman
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Competition: 1st Prize
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photo by f&M
\nrender & video by metroarea<\/h4>\n

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The Crew Reporting Building is a private terminal for Oman’s national airline, built as part of the new Muscat International Airport to optimize and speed up crew operations ahead of departure.<\/p>\n

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It is characterized by lines and forms inspired by stealth aircraft,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

including in its color \u2014 black \u2014 which represents a genuine departure in a country where the law permits only white or sand-colored buildings.<\/p>\n

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The fa\u00e7ade, 105 metres long, features more than 200 blue lights, the airline’s color, and faces north: an orientation that excludes direct solar radiation on the large glazed surface, reducing the thermal load on the envelope. Above it, a deep overhang shields the crew pick-up and drop-off area from the sun, served by a multi-lane roadway allowing vehicles carrying pilots and cabin crew to stop and depart simultaneously during peak hours.<\/p>\n

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It is an innovative, high-technology building, and has the distinction of being the first building visible on arrival in Oman, on exiting the main airport.<\/p>\n

In form, the building is a great portal, a contemporary reinterpretation of the urban gateway that ancient Omanis once passed through at the start and end of their journeys,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

becoming a gateway to the sky. The building has a footprint of 105 x 33 metres, arranged over two levels, within a plot of approximately 27,000 sqm, of which 13,000 sqm are allocated to parking.<\/p>\n


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The CRB is specifically where pre-flight briefings for pilots and cabin crew take place, following a tightly controlled and precise sequence. The ground floor is entirely dedicated to access, screening, briefing and crew waiting areas: from the landside entrance, staff check in at self-service kiosks, pass document control via e-gates and assisted desks, and undergo security screening with X-ray machines and metal detectors, before reaching the gate hold rooms and boarding gates to the airside buses to the aircraft. A mirrored route manages arriving flows, with hold baggage returned on a dedicated belt and customs control before landside exit. The terminal can also be used by other airlines and by VIP passengers who do not follow the traditional airport route.<\/p>\n

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The upper floor houses the airline’s general control offices and emergency management rooms, with 120 highly advanced technology workstations.<\/p>\n

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Developing such a complex and ambitious project required an enormous amount of analysis and research, which Metroarea carried out in Oman together with F&M ingegneria as leader designer and specialized Italian consultants, combining architectural design with an in-depth analysis of flows and operational capacity needed to ensure the building’s proper scalability over time. Design and construction were completed in record time (a year and a half in total), and the building was inaugurated in 2018.<\/p>\n

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