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No 9 I The Boutique Terminal Network

Miller, Lindsey A

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2013, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Throughout the past hundred years, airports have been reduced to brutally functional, people processing machines that contribute to the disengaged mentality of the passenger. This thesis proposes an alternative model of air travel that optimizes passenger experience within environments using architecture as a catalyst for behavioral change. The new model will serve as an all-inclusive membership based time-share franchise that for the first time, gives passengers the opportunity to invest in a luxury transit lifestyle. The Boutique Terminal Network, or BTN, will operate as a private airline servicing flights between a primary hub and a selection of key satellite destination terminals. This thesis will focus on designing a seamless luxury transit service from an international BTN departure hub at Miami International Airport to a satellite terminal at Cyril E. King International Airport on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. Airports embody the characteristics of what phenomenology defines as heterotopic space. Passengers are neither here, nor there--they temporarily exist in a fantastical reality, lost in transition. Analyzing the psychological implications associated with modern airport design reveals conceptions that will inform consciously experienced environments versus unconsciously perceived space. Passenger become part of a larger, carefully articulated spatial configuration that shifts from a state of animated limbo to pleasurable suspension through experiential branding.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
194 p.

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  • Miller, L. A. (2013). No 9 I The Boutique Terminal Network [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367943766

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miller, Lindsey. No 9 I The Boutique Terminal Network. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367943766.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miller, Lindsey. "No 9 I The Boutique Terminal Network." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367943766

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)