You are someone going somewhere

MS2G mixes the city with the ultimate mobility machine. To this end the national airport of the Netherlands has been built anew in the province of Brabant, based on the Global Competition Scenario. The 'sand-city' that is Brabant explodes, large areas are transformed by the airport programme, and the receding parts of programmes are subjected to the new order of mobility and given a place elsewhere. Key supports or points of attraction join in the dynamic of today's networks, to become new points in a global urban society. This design gears urbanism to the high-speed dynamic of present and future society.

The plan picks up on the increasing mobility and the ever greater globalization of society. Physical and virtual networks of infrastructure underpin the society of today and tomorrow, something that spatial planning in the Netherlands is not doing enough. These days mobility and infrastructure are regarded as problem issues and slipped as well as can be into the existing context. It would be better to recognize their potentials and use them as a springboard for spatial design. We need to look for new concepts that match society's dynamic and complexity. This requires radically different directions such as in Sant'Elia's Città Nuova, or the Futurists' assault, armed with the automobile, on fixed territorial boundaries. In the new global world it is no longer the way Team Ten put it - 'You are someone living somewhere' - but rather 'You are someone going somewhere'.

Place of education: AvB Tilburg
Specialization: urban design
Tutors: Wim Nijenhuis