Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2010
Capstone Advisor
Jonathan Lott
Honors Reader
Toma Berlanda
Capstone Major
Architecture
Capstone College
Architecture
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Creative
Abstract
As global culture becomes more mobile, people spend more and more time in transition spaces. While commercial enterprises, specifically retail, have mutated to exploit the captive population of the airport concourse, museums, libraries, and performance venues remained contained to their traditional urban lots. The Artport takes on the challenge of operating in the securitized and necessarily efficient environment of the airport concourse. It is a contemporary art Museum and an airport in one, which uses the delineation of pre and post security environments to generate a play of desire between those inside and outside the securitized zone. Architectural manipulations of the traditional airport typology are used to transform the airport from a corral of forced spending into a desirably destination for the consumption of culture.
Recommended Citation
Nieminen, Kurt, "Concourse: The Airport as Trap for Engagement with Art" (2010). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 327.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/327
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