AERIAL FUTURES: Urban Constellations

2018 Team: Jim Elson, Andrew Ghadimi, Grant Penfield Haugen, Andres Ramirez, Anastasia Sukhoroslova Role: Project Manager

Project Location: New York, NY, USA

This project explores how cities with multiple airport constellations can be reimagined as cohesive urban ecosystems.

AERIAL FUTURES: Urban Constellations investigates airport-city interfaces as infrastructure, operating at a metropolitan scale. In cities where demand for air travel is high, it’s not uncommon to find two, three or even — as is increasingly the case in some metropolitan areas — six airports. These multiple-airport cities offer new kinds of challenges for passengers and urban dwellers who may struggle to navigate their aerial infrastructure. The fragmentation of airports in a single city, frequently owned and operated by different governing bodies, can lead to unpredictable and even confusing experiences.  Using New York City as a case study to trigger responses across disciplines, participants reimagined airport constellations as a choreographed urban ecosystem that relies as much on architecture as it does on technology and data-driven design. This project challenges our expectations about time in transit, wayfinding, security, and commerce; and, explores how technology will redefine disconnected landscapes into continuous, integrated urban airport systems.

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