dar al handasah at dia: two new concourses | dubai remarkable recovery Concourse 3 Designed to meet DIA’s passenger’s needs, C3 is a 535,000 m2 underground structure extending above ground under a huge metal tube for 20 aircraft stands for the A-380 aircraft and 6 hold rooms for remote stands. Part of the Emirates Airlines network, the fully airside structure with characteristic arched shell above ground levels comprises EK First and Business Class lounges, hotels, arrival and departure floors and the axially designed and beautifully lit 15,000 m2 duty free retail facility. Completely detached for its landside, passenger flow from T3 is through the underground APM with the two facilities also connected by underground utilities tunnel that includes the vehicular and baggage handling systems. The APM network also connects to C2’s lower levels. Much like C2, sky train vertical transport systems connect C3’s five floors and act as focal point features within the central atriums of each floor and in keeping with a unified visual identity C3 also adopts the arched shape openings along its exterior shell. With a 90-m wide by 645-m long footprint the elliptical tube-like form that tapers off at each end remains rectilinear in projection. Encased inside C3 are two rectangular volumes holding a four and five star hotels, and first and business class lounges located on two separate levels below the hotels. 4 5 6 7 4 C3 longitudinal section 5 C3 transversal stacking section 6 Central atrium transversal section detail 7 C3 tube like ending glass facade 17