This is the inside of the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport. There’s 1.5 million square feet of space and it’s fascinating architecture that definitely deserves a closer look the next time you’re flying through KDIA. The tent like roof is made of a material that is as thin as a credit card and only weighs less then 2 lbs/sq. ft. Due to the design of the roof structure this material is able to withstand wind gusts and support snow loads. All in all, it weighs 400 tons. The roof (at it’s highest point) is 126 feet off the terminal floor and is supported by 10 miles of steel cable. Equally as impressive is seeing this terminal from the outside. It’s massive support columns stand angularly and look as though they must burrow hundreds of feet down in order to support something on the order of magnitude like this. The final images here (aside from the small thumbnail) were cropped slightly to straighten the camera angle and then processed with a cooler color temperature. I also brought up the lights and the clarity so as to portray the sun rays on the ceiling as heavenly while enhancing the complexity of the structure underneath.
 

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