This course focuses on the importance of air transport in today's world. Starting from the delight of the flight and the journey the course develops a systematic examination of all the interdisciplinary key components that make up the spatial environment of the modern airport. It has a seminar character and addresses the main issues concerning programming, organization, architectural composition and aeronautics poetry. Aviation technology and economy issues, aircraft development, master plan design and passenger terminology architecture and architecture are being explored.
The course studies the notion of cutting as a tool of analysis and synthesis in architectural design. It examines the difference between plan and section and it focuses on the way in which section, in particular, can produce space in architecture, by introducing it as a starting point in the design process. The course offers lectures that track the crossing paths of the history of philosophy and architectural theory and practice. The students are asked to study a renown building the section of which has played an key role in the overall design process.
