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It is just a design feature, and serves no technical purpose, beyond filtering some light and providing a waterfall feature.

Safdie designed the roof of the rotunda as an inverted dome, an asymmetric dish floating above the piazza that lets sunlight in and filters the daylight with a special white fabric ceiling.
_{source: https://www.bdcnetwork.com/ready-takeoff}

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Rain falling upon the suspended dome drains towards the center and enters the rotunda through an oculus skylight as a waterfall. In the dry season, a continuous flow of water washes the roof, contributing to the rotunda’s cooling and forming a fountain through the oculus.
_{source: https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/ben-gurion-intl-airport-airside-terminal}

Image, because it looks nice (Same source as second quote above)

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  "that lets sunlight in and filters the daylight with a special white fabric ceiling" well that is a technical purpose, won't you agree?
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  @Rob: But still the dish serves a technical purpose just like any other possible roof for the building. The question could have been simply answered by: The dish serves as roof for the building ;-)
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It's Architecture [sic], and it's for your eyes to behold:

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This is the decorative roof above the duty-free area, which is circular with a plaza in its center. From the top center and around the "sun roof" there a circular waterfall.

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It is just a design feature, and serves no technical purpose, beyond filtering some light and providing a waterfall feature.

Safdie designed the roof of the rotunda as an inverted dome, an asymmetric dish floating above the piazza that lets sunlight in and filters the daylight with a special white fabric ceiling.
_{source: https://www.bdcnetwork.com/ready-takeoff}

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Rain falling upon the suspended dome drains towards the center and enters the rotunda through an oculus skylight as a waterfall. In the dry season, a continuous flow of water washes the roof, contributing to the rotunda’s cooling and forming a fountain through the oculus.
_{source: https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/ben-gurion-intl-airport-airside-terminal}

Image, because it looks nice (Same source as second quote above)

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It is just a design feature, and serves no technical purpose, beyond filtering some light and providing a waterfall feature.

Safdie designed the roof of the rotunda as an inverted dome, an asymmetric dish floating above the piazza that lets sunlight in and filters the daylight with a special white fabric ceiling.
_{source: https://www.bdcnetwork.com/ready-takeoff}

and

Rain falling upon the suspended dome drains towards the center and enters the rotunda through an oculus skylight as a waterfall. In the dry season, a continuous flow of water washes the roof, contributing to the rotunda’s cooling and forming a fountain through the oculus.
_{source: https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/ben-gurion-intl-airport-airside-terminal}

Image, because it looks nice (Same source as second quote above)

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It is just a design feature, and serves no technical purpose, beyond filtering some light and providing a waterfall feature.

Safdie designed the roof of the rotunda as an inverted dome, an asymmetric dish floating above the piazza that lets sunlight in and filters the daylight with a special white fabric ceiling.
_{source: https://www.bdcnetwork.com/ready-takeoff}

and

Rain falling upon the suspended dome drains towards the center and enters the rotunda through an oculus skylight as a waterfall. In the dry season, a continuous flow of water washes the roof, contributing to the rotunda’s cooling and forming a fountain through the oculus.
_{source: https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/ben-gurion-intl-airport-airside-terminal}

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