The Hindu·4 min read·medium
Twenty-one metres of glass on a cyclone coast: inside the Bhogapuram terminal
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Mayank Tiwari
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The new Bhogapuram International Airport terminal features a unique fish-inspired design engineered to withstand extreme cyclonic conditions. The structure is built to handle wind speeds up to 275 kmph, significantly exceeding standard safety requirements.
From the air, the terminal at Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport in Bhogapuram is a fish. The roof runs as one long silver shell, ribbed into bays that ripple front to back the way gill slits do on the underside of a ray, and it flings out a pier to carry the aerobridges, so the plan reads as a fish: check-in in the belly, gates in the tail.
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