YOKOHAMA, JAPAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

North Carolina State University

Project idea

The Japanese have a long-standing love of the land, sea, and air: Japanese films depict the beauty of the landscape in images of wheat waving in the breeze, Mount Fuji covered with snow, and many inspiring landscapes that make us long to inhabit them.
Japan has a huge coastline with magnificent coastal vistas. Japan has drawn much of its sustenance from the sea, leading to a cuisine focused on sushi, kelp, and other fresh harvests from the sea. This love of nature is represented in the gardens designed throughout the concourse.
In more recent times, the Japanese have become enamored of, and connected to, air flight, being a technologically advanced, island nation that is crucially connected to the rest of the world through air flight.
Yokohama is centrally located in Japan, which makes it an excellent landing point for accessing the far reaches of the country. It is also very close to Tokyo, the airports of which are already severely overloaded, with limited land onto which to expand airport capacity. An airport located in Yokohama could drastically expand the already vibrant economy of the Tokyo Bay area.

Project description

The Land-Sea-Air-Triumvirate focus for the new Yokohama Airport: The new airport will be located in the Tokyo bay, immediately adjacent to Yokohama. In terms of land connections it will have automotive and rail fingers to both the east and the west coast of the Tokyo bay into Yokohama. In terms of the sea connections the airport will act as a hub for energy-efficient, high-speed ferry boats connecting people from the airport to all parts of the Tokyo bay. It will serve heavy-capacity, cargo ships connecting to the world. Underwater research laboratory and eco-tourism center with underwater hotel and scuba-launch centers will be some but not all of the main features of the airport.
In terms of air connection, the airport will serve hypersonic flights, sub-sonic flights and VTOL flights to access the furthest corners of the world and the immediate metropolitan areas of Japan.

Technical information

The airport's Program is made up of:

Land side
- Road and water access from city
- Check in area
- Security

Air side
-Terminals
-Garden
-Waiting Areas
- Restaurants and shops
- Sky train
-High rise hotel.

Research Area
-Underwater research labs