文档介绍：Financial Times Global Traveller Soapbox
September 2007
“The airport of the future”
Lord Foster
I am really quite passionate about flying, which may explain why I protest that most airports are depressingly
more and more divorced from the experience of flying. You barely see the aircraft and when you do you are
inside and you are anaesthetised with drinks, food and movies. Almost anything to pretend that you are
doing something other than flying, which may be what the interior is all about. Somewhere there is a missed
opportunity here. An airport should be a celebratory structure. It is a celebration of flight and a celebration
of place. It bine a strong visual identity with a humanistic sense of clarity, so that the experience
of air travel is uplifting, secure, ing and efficient. Airports are the gateways to cities and nations and
are the windows on the world. The airport of the future will capture all of this.
Both flight and design involve unseen forces, obey certain rules and for their realisation depend totally on
the distillation of plex systems into a single vision. An airport is pure infrastructure; if you like, it is
inhabited infrastructure. When I worked on Stansted in the early 1980s, I was determined to recreate a
sense of the reassurance of early airfields – when you would arrive by road, and the runway would be
clearly