Hana Marisa Mohar
Complex Projects
Organ factory: An airport city transplantation hospital
It is the year 2050 and cities are shaped by the transitory nature of the worldwide population. Airport regions continue to sprawl, fusing with the notion of city. The sense of distance is diminished but the human body, our primary vessel, is burdened by its natural limitations and hasty way of life.
As one of the emerging passenger-driven typologies, the Organ factory is embedded into the core of the Schiphol Corridor. It is a hyper-specialized hospital which processes patients from a wider European region and distributes freshly biomanufactured organs abroad.
The project investigates the hospital as a fundamentally urban type and applies it to the questionably urban condition of airport cities. While the hospital assumes the form of a generic entity with an independent internal system, the same system produces an open ground level and supports malleable intermediate floors, which patients, visitors and pedestrians occupy on their own terms.