The airport type that has equally nourished and crippled the Holy City is now re-imagined as an airport, a mosque, a small city and a gateway. As multiple gateways surrounding Mecca, they resurrect the traditional pilgrimage rite of entering the City through its valleys. These city-gateways disperse the pressure of growth and surges away from the centre, maintaining the legibility of the Holy City by preserving its natural limits and ultimately, the very Idea of its Sacredness.
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