How architects design airports to handle superlong security lines |
How architects design airports to handle superlong security lines
Airports are designed for big crowds, but hours-long queues can’t be solved through architecture alone.
JFK Terminal One [Image: Gensler]
The historically long security lines currently snaking through U.S. airports are the painful result of extreme circumstances. Callouts, no-shows, and resignations by Transportation Security Administration workers fed up with a lack of pay during a partial government shutdown, combined with a bump in spring break travelers, have created unusually congested airport security checkpoints.
For the architects and airport authorities that work together to design these heavily regulated spaces, it’s the kind of convergence you can’t exactly........