LCA london city airport
6th semester | 2008 | London | cooperation with Annelien Vandecasteele and Pei Fun Lee
“According to the spatial configuration of Space Syntax (the movement relations in a complex, presented by a deformed grid), a new type of architecture according to the analytic theory can take place...
...The ideas can be extended to other areas where problems of configuration and pattern are crucial... ...A place as a monument, a point in a large scale thing, a point in the deformed grid.
This one is connected as a central element by pathways”. (Bill Hillier, Space Syntax)
This theory, and certainly these sentences form the basis and the start point of our project.
As explained above, the theory concerning movement relations in complex (a city f.e.) have been applied to the London City Airport.
Airports are ‘complex buildings’ where movement is crucial and creates the vital factor, and where problems of social organisation, configuration and pattern are the main factors.
The airport can be seen as the node in the network or grid, connecting pathways from macro (the World) to meso (London and Docklands) and microscale (Airport).
The airport forms the architectural link or extension of the theory Space Syntax, where the guideline of the movement through and around the airport determinates the further project progress!