Airport of the Future
Hosted by: Fentress Architects
Panels Done in: 2 WEEKS
CONCEPT: As globalization increases, ideas, jobs and the revolutionary ideas behind the manufacturing of goods are dispersed throughout the world creating numerous opportunities for people to make money thus augmenting the desire of people to venture out and become vaguely familiar with foreign regions of the world, whether for business or for leisure.
The concept of capitalization may seem inert in the consumer’s mind; however it is a nascent force that is proliferating power amongst a small group of individuals. The function of an airport therefore can be seen merely as a tool in which this small group can gain control over a massive group of people. No longer is the airport simply a location of transportation, but a place of highly concentrated consumerism, a capitalist’s jackpot. Marketing and branding illuminate its spaces causing one to spend, at times, copious amounts of money impulsively. Longer layover times cause the masses to remain stagnant in this infrastructure which leaves no other option than to indulge in it compartments of goods and spaces of nourishment. It may not be necessary to call this an insidious realization, but a natural occurrence, one that should be embraced rather than criticized.
CONCEPT: As globalization increases, ideas, jobs and the revolutionary ideas behind the manufacturing of goods are dispersed throughout the world creating numerous opportunities for people to make money thus augmenting the desire of people to venture out and become vaguely familiar with foreign regions of the world, whether for business or for leisure.
The concept of capitalization may seem inert in the consumer’s mind; however it is a nascent force that is proliferating power amongst a small group of individuals. The function of an airport therefore can be seen merely as a tool in which this small group can gain control over a massive group of people. No longer is the airport simply a location of transportation, but a place of highly concentrated consumerism, a capitalist’s jackpot. Marketing and branding illuminate its spaces causing one to spend, at times, copious amounts of money impulsively. Longer layover times cause the masses to remain stagnant in this infrastructure which leaves no other option than to indulge in it compartments of goods and spaces of nourishment. It may not be necessary to call this an insidious realization, but a natural occurrence, one that should be embraced rather than criticized.
The airport of the future should not only embrace this ideology of growing capitalization, but partnered with technology, and utilized by the consumer, it has the potential, through architecture, to mitigate between these two various groups which would therefore proliferate this broader ‘relationship’ between the consumer and the one who profits within society.