Name: Joonas Castrén
Track: Architecture
Studio: Complex Projects
Year: MSc 3/4 / 2025
Type: Graduation Project
Tutor: Olindo Caso, J.A. van de Voort, M. Heijman
Description:
What if airports weren’t defined only by speed and efficiency, but also by connection and a sense of place? This project explores that question through a medium-scale airport for Milan, drawing from the history of Idroscalo Park, a former waterplane basin, and the city’s material identity. As a year-long process in the Complex Projects studio, the work distills the airport, a building with very specific programmatic constraints, into an organized design across 90,000 sqm. The process developed from research and typology studies to massing, urban strategy, and construction detail.