Henrik Rothe, Senior Lecturer, Cranfield University, UK

Speaker Biograghy: Henrik is an accomplished architect with considerable expertise in airport and urban planning and design. His extensive knowledge of working in 35 countries includes assignments as Designer and Strategic Advisor for Vienna Airport, Gazprom Bank, Zurich Airport and SEA Milano, among others. His professional work is inextricably related to research and teaching in the UK, Asia and Africa. Henrik became Senior Lecturer at Cranfield University in 2014 and has conceived the urban turbine research project, a unique platform investigating new relationships between airports and cities, now part of Cranfield's DARTeC. He engages in pioneering work that expands the possibilities of design innovation, pushing the functional and spatial integration of airports with their urban environment. For his work on the new HQ of the GLA in London, Henrik was awarded RIBA’s President's Medal. Since 2015 Henrik has chaired the Informa Facility Management in Airports conference.


Day 1 - 20 March
Session: Future Airports

13:45 - 14:15 - Seamless – what next?
Synopsis: Introducing security walk-throughs will remove the final obstacle for a seamless passenger journey inside the terminal. Airports will become perfect machines. What next? From simple wayfinding to complex interchange strategies, airports need to think about seamless in a wider context, reaching out to the cities they serve. And fundamental changes to surface access – Uber and driverless cars – will challenge the traditional airport business model. In a shared attempt between industry, academia, airports and municipalities, DARTeC – Cranfield’s new research platform – investigates the dynamics between airports and cities, with space for the unexpected encounter.

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