I have been to not many but few airports and each one seems to be upping ante with complexity. Its really hard to go around with cars or even juat navigating around airports. Why are they built like that? Is it just output of making it simple inside??
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It’s like large hospitals.
Usually if you try to get around large hospitals, you have to navigate a maze of hallways. There’s no direct route anywhere. And it sure seems to be designed poorly!
That’s because large hospitals usually start out as small hospitals. Then they add a new wing. And then four years later, they add another wing. Then three years later, they add another building, and connect it with a hallway.
So hospitals kind of “Grow” over time, spreading out like an amoeba. Nobody thought out the entire thing 30 years into the future, it just kind of grew that way.
I think the same is true for airports. They start out small: one runway, one terminal, a few gates. Then the metro area grows, and they need more airport capacity, so they add more terminals, more runways. Repeat this process every five or ten years.
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