Qatar’s new airport: a tropical garden with over 300 trees and 25,000 plants

World Cup in Qatar 2022

On the occasion of the 2022 Qatar Football World Cup, Doha International Airport is undergoing a makeover with a huge indoor tropical garden filled with light.

Edited by Clara Salzano

The new garden at Hamad International Airport

World Cup in Qatar 2022

Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Doha, Qatar, has twice been named the best airport in the world. And while all the football teams that will participate in the 2022 FIFA World Cup are expected in Qatar, the largest airport in the country is being renovated with an expansion project that saw the creation of a huge covered tropical garden, filled with natural light, which serves as the new central concourse at Hamad International Airport.

In the tropical garden of Hamad International Airport
In the tropical garden of Hamad International Airport

The 2022 World Cup is about to start in Qatar and the country is preparing to host the important event with a series of projects to renew itself. The country’s largest airport, Doha Hamad International Airport (HIA), underwent an expansion project that included a massive new covered forest in the facility’s central concourse. The new tropical garden at Hamad International Airport is called The Orchard and includes more than 300 trees and 25,000 plants from sustainable forests around the world.

the orchard
the orchard

The Orchard is a tropical forest of over 5,000 square meters inside the terminal building at Doha Airport. Thanks to a glazed roof that penetrates the central atrium of the HIA, the garden enjoys plenty of sunlight that fills the space and illuminates the vegetation between the walkways and terraces in the treetops. The forest is the new focal point of the airport with a spectacular water fountain and trees reaching up to 15 meters in height.

The tropical garden at Hamad International Airport
The tropical garden at Hamad International Airport

The new space is part of a larger expansion plan for Hamad International Airport, which opened in 2014, which includes the creation of additional gates, improvements to service facilities, new shops and food outlets, new lounges and a second hotel inside the airport. airport, the Oryx Garden Hotel with 100 new rooms that will expand the current Oryx Airport Hotel.

In the forest at Hamad International Airport
In the forest at Hamad International Airport

The expansion project at the HIA, according to Doha authorities, will be a major driver of growth at the airport, which is expected to increase passenger capacity from the current 40 million to 58 million annually as early as next year.

Source: Fan Page IT

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