What would our lives be like in the near future?
The project attempts to theoretically examine a new urban pattern reflecting the global logic of the 21st century, along with unique local characteristics such as the Ben Gurion Airport and the potential for the development of a beltway type facility. I first began using the term 'Aerotropolis' to describe a global type of city with no clear limits and an airport at its center, serving to jump start a dense urban center around it and provide it with economic prosperity.
Aerotropolis TLV serves as a continuation of similar chronological urban paradigms, where the presence of such infrastructural commodities as railway stations, seaports or even highways in cities resulted in their growth and their being embraced by globalization. Moreover, the project can be considered a retroactive response to a possible future fate of the phenomenon of the metropolitan area both globally and in the case of the suburb of Ramla in particular, with the main challenge in the encounter between the Aerotropolis model and the existing urban model being the novel approach the former would bring into the complex structure of the latter. The project strives for the development of a dialectical sort of relationship between the two layers – the authentic lifestyle cultivated in Ramla, as well as the typical bilateralism we've grown accustomed to in this day and age, that is so blatantly embodied in the vision of the Aerotropolis.
