Reading Response and Question

The Flow and Function reading introduces us to the world of the airport, that up until now, I, like all other civilians, knew very little of. The details and distances from stage to stage, and from space to space are specific and necessary to the sucess of moving people. And that is where the fun began in the reading; when people are arriving and leaving and transfering. The Flow and Function piece layed the specifics for what Zoomscape: Airports, described. Between worlds in what I thought of as a time machine. It descibed a world in which time stops and the senses are put on hold, until you land in another city, in another airport. The word should be broken down AIR-PORT. The first part dives into a world that used to be magical and mystical. People would look forward to flying because of the different view from above, because they wanted to experience the sensations of new experience. The word PORT is a gate, a place that opens and is the threshold between the regular, everyday world and this mystical journey into the sky. It really is cool that we can fly, move through the sky, and defy gravity for hours at a time.


The problem now is that the the magical nature of flying has been stripped, instead replaced with the chaos and hastle of today's commercial airline experience. I want to use these articles to lay out a systematic, practical continum of spaces that is ALSO a PORT to the mystical world that was existed, and I believe we can return to. There is a kid in everybody, even the most seasoned, salted business traveler. If architecture is truth, than a design that incorporates both of the aforementioned will be able to make people think in a different way and feel comofortable in the AIRPORT.

Is this Possible? or am I just dreaming?