Aerotropolis: Typological Ideas for the City

Airports are no longer aviation sheds exiled to the periphery of the city - they are cities in themselves.

Our investigation of this phenomenon was guided by 2 possible concepts of the airport as a typological idea of the city. The first points to the possibility of the Airport as Urban Core - dense, congested, overlaid with rich programmatic accumulations and served by high-speed inter-modal transportation networks. The second imagines the possibility of the airport as City of Exacerbated Difference [COED] and draws upon its role as a new breed of city centre; strategically positioned as a counterpoint to the traditional city centre it serves.

As a response to these 2 concepts, we arrived at 3 main Typological Ideas of the City:

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