Visitors’ Terraces as Components of the Urban Environment of Airports

The paper covers the results of research on the urbanization processes of airport territories. Ways to remove social barriers and ensure universal access to road infrastructure, recreation and local culture have been explored. The paper represents the experience of arranging visitors’ terraces as components of social and cultural space at the territory of airports. Events and places worth seeing are categorized in 5 parameters. Areas where potential visitors concentrate and attracting sights (3) are defined. Characteristic features of visitors’ terraces intended for attendance, factors (6) for evaluating the arrangement, siting (3) within the system of spatial organization of terminal cities and airports are defined. For the system of spatial organization of the international airport “Boryspil”, 3 options for arrangement of visitors’ terraces are proposed. Each of the options has its advantages and disadvantages. Suggestions are given in order to satisfy the social demand for the visual accessibility of a number of workflow operations in the airports and the environment.