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Abstract ABSTRAC Air transport industry has suffered a variety of changes over time due to external and internal factors. Because these factors behave in a way that is not always possible to predict, the planning and design of an airport terminal faces many uncertainties. Therefore, it is urgent to identify a methodology to evaluate what layout concepts for a terminal best adapt to uncertain future changes. To determine the flexibility of the building, it is essential to identify the factors of change and their noise variables and to analyze air transport industries and various airport terminals. The ever-growing aviation industry requires airport terminals to be planned, .~ designed and constructed in a way that should allow flexible operating conditions. The significance of ”flexible design” has been identified by various researchers and architects, and a number of flexible design techniques have been applied to residential and some other utility buildings such as hospitals and educational building. However, the flexible design concept has attracted limited attention for application in airport terminals, which may benefit from this design approach to address the ever-changing functional requirements. The current research proposes a design framework to develop flexible layout configurations of terminal buildings in airports. A flexible design framework for airport terminals has been developed based on a number of hypotheses extracted from literature. Flexible design parameters were used as a tool in the current research to uncover the relationships existing between spatial layout and corresponding passenger activities, explicitly highlighting the significance passenger activities. The proposed technique uses a novel concept of obtaining rational adjacency information from the terminal properties. A mathematical model has been developed as part of the current research demonstrating the applicability of the proposed design concept in order to evaluate uncertainty. The evaluation process ends with a global value for each proposed layout that match with the current needs of the airport terminal. A set of design parameters has been proposed to identify for choosing a suitable layout that will provide due flexibility in uncertain situations. . |