JETLAG CITY | XS | 1
XS STUDYING THE TYPOLOGIES AT ATLANTA AIRPORT & COMPARING TO ATLANTA, GEORGIA CITY
GLITCHED “You wake up at 3am to be in the cab at 4 to be at the airport at 5am sharp to be ready for your 8am flight. You’re in a rush to make sure you get there on time; you don’t want to miss your flight. Once you’ve done your due-diligence by checking into your flight on your phone, you get through security and you realized… you have hours to burn and but stuck waiting for your connection flight. Your time and self are locked in this awkward in between-limbo time period in a building that is essentially a large waiting room with snacks. So what do you do? Check your social media.” Social media applications have become an extension of the self. It can connect a person to anyone within seconds and have any form of interaction. It is the ultimate prevention of boredom while producing more and more boredom. Jetlag City is a proposal which attempts to bring the two worlds together through the use of the existing and corresponding limbo spaces, social media and the airport. The space frame occupies the area above the airplanes to make a hanger for below and interiorly create a labyrinthine city. This city responds to the desire to travel and be able to live within multiple places at once, just out of your suitcase, and/or act as a destination and activity for people living in the host city. Jetlag City is a city answering to the flux of the internet, technology, and social media and in of itself, a new city.It will be the ideal, tourist city where all weapons are triple checked at the entrance of the airport, people will know how long exactly they will be there for, and it will have everything needed in a real city, while occupying physical and virutal space between destinations. Jetlag City will be a portal into the internet. It will have a city which has permanent pieces of architecture which will function as the “necessary needs of the city” and compartments which will allow for an alternative reality, enhanced with a smart technology. As a destination in its own right, it proposes an answer to the contemporary desire to travel, to be always on the move, or to even live in multiple places at once.
Samantha Calabrese & Isabelle Xuege Li Graudated Pratt Institute 2018 Worked on Jetlag City in 2018 as their senior thesis SC Current: Designer 1 & Visualization Designer Studio O+A San Francisco Now works on Interior Arch. Specializing in 3D Modeling, Rendering & VR IL Current: Architectural Designer 1 KPF New York Now works on Urban Planning & Designing Mixed Use Architecture Professors: Fred Biehle & Eva Perez
AIRPORT TYPOLOGIES FOCUSING AROUND FAMOUS URBAN FABRICS