Airport Of Media

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Location

2011

Concept

International Airport

United Kingdom

Facts

Year: 2011

Typology: Masterplan, Cultural, Experience

City: International Airport

Country: United Kingdom

Client: AOM - Airport of Media Global

Team:

Design: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]
Design Team: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, Gijs Joosen, Ilaria Giardiello, Lieneke van Hoek, Miro Strigáč

Partners:

Partner: Hyperbody - TU Delft, Marco Verde, MarkDavid Hosale

Tag That Body: Digital, Virtual reality

Shape That Body: Generative, Multi-agent, Nonstandard, Participatory

Move That Body: Adaptive, Interactive, Realtime behavior, Sensor data

Evolve That Body: Unpredictable

To design the conceptual framework for the Launchpads of the Airport of Media project is a pleasant challenge. An array of state-of-the-art conceptual ideas, social techniques and technical possibilities come together in this project. The AOM project features a complete merge of the real and the virtual. The ambition is that the virtual reality of information content is experienced as real while the visitors experience the real physical environment as a virtual sensation.

Connecting people

Information is the key factor to the design concept. Information is what connects the AOM installations with the people. Information is what connects one AOM installation in one airport to the other AOM Launchpads in other locations. Information is what connects people here to people there. The AOM Launchpad constantly reads, processes and sends information to the people and to the other AOM Launchpads.

The AOM universe

We have chosen the smallest unit of of the informed AOM constructs to form the building blocks of the design concept. We imagine a local universe of 216 reference points, slowly moving around in the designated space in the airport terminal, like birds in a swarm, like
a school of fish. They wait to be instructed by local and global information, as to stay calm in a state of relaxation or conversely to unfold into specific high-resolution images and movies. The state the AOM universe is in, specifies how and in what direction the information and the people are moving.

Disappearing architecture

The built structure is only there to support the information content.We frame the task for the designers of the future AOM Launchpadsto be as inhibited as technically possible with the architectural design and physical presence of the built structure. The users must get the feeling to navigate through information, for that a language of disappearing architecture must be developed.