This Student Project Shows How Droneports Could Be the Train Stations of the 21st Century

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New typologies in architecture generally arise in two ways. The first is through a reevaluation of existing typologies that cater to familiar programs such as housing, schools, or healthcare. This is done in an effort to improve on the norm and to challenge accepted architectural notions, as seen for example, in the work of Moshe Safdie and OMA. The other is when an entirely new program, site condition, or client emerges and forces the invention of a new typology simply through their design requirements.

For his Master’s degree project at the University of Alcalá in Spain, Saúl Ajuria Fernández has envisioned the essential civic building of the future: the Urban Droneport. Located in what Ajuria has identified as a “disused urban vacuum” in Madrid, Spain, the Urban Droneport “allows and optimizes the transport of goods with Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems in urban areas” - in other words, drone-delivered packages.

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Cite: Sharon Lam. "This Student Project Shows How Droneports Could Be the Train Stations of the 21st Century" 21 Dec 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/801464/this-student-project-shows-how-droneports-could-be-the-train-stations-of-the-21st-century> ISSN 0719-8884

Outdoor View. Image Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández

这个学生设计展示了无人机站怎样成为21世纪的火车站

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