Trigger
Point
Michele Atherton
TXL
What if a latent image within
an architectural form became
manifest? Tegel Airport’s hexagonal
structure is one aspect
that abstractly concretises the
idea of the space age within
the very fabric of the building.
Tegel appears physically
located in a time that prepared
itself for take-off.
TXL presents the second in
a series of communiqués
sent from imagined autonomous
communities who,
having physically removed
themselves from national
boundaries, have established
innovative political and social
systems. Once liberated, they
roam the globe looking for
other colonies with which they
have something in common.
TXL views Tegel Airport as one
such micro-nation that has
broken free of its geographical
positioning. It postulates what
this airport, once detached
from its moorings, might communicate
of its future.