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Aerotropolis & regional urban systems

Schiphol Aerocity Masterplan

Amsterdam, Netherlands

A long-range aerotropolis vision and strategic framework for a mixed-use development precinct adjacent to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, exploring airport-linked urbanism, future mobility, innovation economies and metropolitan growth.

Context

Contributed to the preparation of a long-range aerotropolis vision, strategic framework and mixed-use development precinct, AMSity, adjacent to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands.

The project explored the relationship between airport-linked urbanism, future mobility systems, innovation economies, sustainability and integrated metropolitan growth within a globally connected planning environment.

The planning process involved extensive precedent analysis, systems planning, spatial structuring, mobility integration, infrastructure coordination and long-range development thinking across a complex multinational and future-oriented urban context.

Stacked urban analysis and planning systems — Amsterdam’s radial structure, Schiphol’s movement vectors and the orthogonal polder pattern, read as one metropolitan system

Role & contribution

Contributed to the development of the overarching spatial planning and urban design framework, working across multidisciplinary planning, infrastructure, transportation and urban systems inputs to synthesise technical and spatial considerations into a coordinated long-range planning framework.

Produced analytical diagrams, spatial frameworks, conceptual planning graphics and presentation material used to communicate complex urban systems and development opportunities to project stakeholders and collaborators.

  • Aerotropolis and airport-city planning
  • Transit-oriented and multimodal mobility systems
  • Innovation district and economic clustering analysis
  • Smart-city and infrastructure frameworks
  • Landscape and public realm integration
  • Precedent analysis and comparative urban research
  • Phased development and implementation strategies
  • Conceptual spatial planning and visual communication

Outcome

The project established a conceptual framework for a globally connected mixed-use aerotropolis linked to Schiphol Airport and the broader Amsterdam metropolitan region. The work explored how integrated mobility systems, innovation economies, sustainability principles and public realm networks could inform a future-oriented urban development model responsive to evolving economic, technological and environmental conditions.

It reinforced the importance of integrating mobility, infrastructure, landscape systems, economic development and human-scale urban environments into cohesive and resilient long-term planning frameworks.

Drawings & analysis

  • Urban form, mobility and land-use diagrams — built-up form, transit, road network and green space/water as separate structuring layers

  • Comparative land pattern and form language — historic Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport and the rural polder

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