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The objective of this design project has been to explore and con-

sider a viable alternative to a traditional grid-based city based
around an airport, of which the later is the primary basis of
transporting good and services to key destination around the
world. The basis of this alternative spatial model has been to
provide flexibility and identity to the needs of future city mobility

dominated by individual citizens requiring air transport as part
of their daily working and leisure lives. Kasarda & Lindsay
(2011) have demonstrated that efficiently designed cities play an

important basis of a countries economic viability as economic cen-
tres of trade. (Posada, 2013)

In this example an attempt has been made to consider an Arabic

Aerotropolis, or what I define here as an AeroMedina—an Arabi-
an based city which is economically competitive to global mar-
kets, but still considers the harsh climatic (environmental) condi-
tions of the Arabian desert that incorporates both passive and ac-
tive design elements, in order to encourage quality and comforta-

ble conditions for it’s residents.

The design has been predominantly conceptual, and much detail
of the micro-elements of making a city work, has yet to be done,

however, I hope I have demonstrated a viable conceptual model
that can be applied in multiple forms and hybrids adaptable and
highly economically competitive across the Arabian, and poten-

tially other international arid regions.