Hana Mohar
Complex Projects
ORGAN FACTORY
Student: Hana Mohar
Title: Organ factory: 2050 Schiphol transplantation hospital
Studio: MSc3/4 AMS 2050 Studio
Semester: Fall 2017
Abstract
The thesis explores the site of Niuewe Meer in the context of the near future of 2050. The research deals with the new urban phenomena of airport cities - their urban qualities and the issues they pose for development of expanding city borders. On the case of a new passenger driven typology - the airport hospital, it investigates how future airport city amenities could perform as an interface between global demands and local urbanity. The project is based on the notion of acceptance of airport city development by common culture but provides a critical stance toward spatial repercussions of hyper commercialized territory and pseudo-urban space. It proposes one solution to this issue, in which development is oriented to site specific program, aligned with the economic and logistic ambition of Schiphol but reaffirming the specific qualities of the area. The project investigates the hospital as an urban type and applies it to the questionably urban condition of airport cities. The ideology of constant technological progress is leading hospitals to extreme specialization, therefore the organ factory takes the form of a condensed medical campus which can process and supply patients from a wider European region.
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