The Skypark Business Center at Luxembourg Airport is the first visible milestone of Airport City, the large-scale development project at Luxembourg Airport. The building, approximately 300 meters long, includes a four-level underground parking garage, retail spaces, hotel, restaurants, and office premises.
The façades articulate the building’s dynamic composition and its role within the Airport City. They express the project’s layered structure, transitioning from a solid mineral base to a transparent ground floor and sculptural upper volumes. This shifting façade generates a play of light and shadow, emphasizing the building’s rotation and stacked configuration.
The variation in angles offers constantly changing perspectives, reinforcing the sculptural identity of the architecture.
The fully glazed ground-floor level establishes permeability and strong visual connections, inviteing public interaction and enhancing accessibility. It emerges from a mineral base, where a colonnade of triangular-section concrete louvers and slender steel columns forms an open façade that naturally ventilates the parking area. This sense of transparency is achieved through structural straight and curved SSG façades, incorporating both convex and concave geometries, paired with high-performance triple glazing. Custom-designed stainless steel filigree mirror mullions and transoms further articulate the façade, lending precision and a refined lightness. Above, copper-toned stainless-steel volumes shape the upper levels, their finish enriched through a PVB-treated surface. These cladded elements envelop the building in a continuous, undulating skin that echoes the zig-zag geometry with softly curved corners. The façade is composed of unitised triangular, ventilated double-skin 3D modules, enhancing both performance and sculptural quality. This system enables natural ventilation through operable windows while effectively shielding interiors from airport noise.
A balanced interplay between transparency and solidity defines the building’s dynamic architectural identity. Overall, the façade integrates aesthetics, technical performance, and spatial experience into a cohesive and expressive whole.