Terminal plans and sections
Fuelled by a hypercapitalist way of thinking, Umeå´s Airport of tomorrow grows into a parasite on society, co-existing with the city in a mutualistic parasitic relationship. It will be a gated community for the rich and the beautiful to live and spend their days lounging and shopping, partying the nights away. They are the jetset, and they have all the money and all the fun in the world. The Jetset’s hyperconsumerism turns the airport into Umeå’s new commercial center.Their life of decadence fuels the city and the city feeds their deprivation. The parasitic relationship between the airport and the Umeå is mirrored in the airport structure. What used to be a rational building of stone cold efficiency has been infected by delicate structures in steel and glass, latching themselves onto and dissolving the original structure. The airport is where the jetset live, in the fragile impractical but ohso-beautiful terminals on the border between Umeå and the world. Detail section of terminal gate