RECONSTRUCTION OF LANDSIDE FOR LABRAQ AIRPORT LIBYA

Abstract

Abstract Labraq airport located in Labraq city , 25 km east of the Albetha in Libya circle on the spin-off 27-21 north at its intersection with longitude 74-22 east longitude and altitude of 650 m above sea level. This airport built in 1967, a total value of 1,000,000 dollar US by a group Bethune Syrian national and project manager Renaissance architecture.After the military coup stoppedin 1986, the airport return as an airport of a civilian-military joint, and in 1996 it has not been converted to a civilian airport only. The condition of Labraq airports nowadays isold building or already 45 years, not modern,the small size of the passenger terminal, administration, departure halls, reception rooms, security and baggage claim conducted in one small building which causing obstruction of the work. Theobjective of this study isto make design for reconstruction of the terminal building for Labraq Libya airport to be more comfortable and more modern and to quantitatively evaluate the characteristics of the terminal configurations. The secondary data is taken by the official report of the Labraq airport that consists of data such as the number of passengers, the number of airplane, seat capacity, periodical flight, parking lot capacity for departure and arrival, width of terminal building, and the number of employees.The other secondary data supporting this research are also downloaded from internet which consists of population growth, economic growth, and growth of tourism industry in Libya. Therefore with the prediction in the next ten year thetotal passangers in 2020 will two times the existing passangers.This means that minimum terminal bulding is about two times the existing building. The new design is also already draw by considering all the aspects i.e. the number of passengers and be more comfortable and more modern. Key words:terminal building, passenger, reconstruction, Labrag airport.