Hamad International Airport, located in Doha, Qatar, stretches across 8.5 sq. miles with the ability to hold over 50 million passengers a year. The technical design focuses on efficiency of form and space to provide travelers with a better-quality experience. The airport provides an abundance of natural light through the use of glass technology.

The Hamad International Airport displays impressive architecture using Pilkington Optiwhite™ for custom designed interior glazing, by Joel Berman Glass Studios. The Hamad International Airport was an incredible project that, as of 2015, is the largest glass art installation in the world. It involved over 170,000 sq ft of glass spanning the corridors and public areas of the airport. Joel Berman Glass Studios was engaged in 2007 by HOK to collaborate on the project to design and create secure corridor glazing with the goal to create a graduated pattern from maximum coverage to clear. The project was very large scale in scope with an aggressive timeline. Finding an efficient and timely solution was a real design and production challenge. Through R&D, we developed a technique where a graphic image that could be legible at long distance viewing as well as mid-range and close up. One of the challenges was to have a graphic on three layers in a laminated glass configuration. In order to make the pattern read on several layers, a complex process was developed to print on three sides of the laminated glass. This is the first application of its kind globally. Please visit http://www.jbermanglass.com/ for more details on graphic printed glass.

Pilkington Optiwhite™, a low iron glass has a very high light transmittance creating a natural environment.  The glass retains the purity of color with minimum color cast when viewing through the glass, ensuring an unobstructed view for travelers.