Maastricht Aachen Airport Vision

Maastricht Aachen Airport Vision

Maastricht, Netherlands

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Status: Completed
Project Design: 2022
Address: Vliegveldweg 90, 6199 AD Maastricht Airport
Client: Alliantie PleinAIR Maastricht
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Project description

Imagine Maastricht Aachen Airport transformed into a park: ‘PleinAIR Maastricht’. With plenty of space for the Brightlands Campus, where development, knowledge sharing, and innovation can take place on a Euregional scale. It would be a park for both residents and tourists, where nature and recreation merge with the region's energy transition.

An elongated grass hill, serving as both a sound barrier and a site for integrating existing and new structures, will rise along the A2. This hill will form the entrance to the campus and act as a gateway to the unique hilly landscape behind it. Most existing companies can continue operating as usual, while a few warehouses will be repurposed for campus use.

The park will offer space for start-ups, research, and serve as a testing ground, stimulating and facilitating partnerships between entrepreneurs, future-oriented (vocational) education, and private individuals. It will drive a Euregional, innovative knowledge economy, positively impacting the regional labour market.

Its wide range of functions and remarkable diversity render it a dynamic and robust sector that generates substantial employment opportunities. The landscape makes a major contribution to the quality of life and is therefore an absolute condition for a successful knowledge economy.

Especially talent, is very particular about where it settles. The economy follows talent, which demands a high-quality living environment. PleinAIR responds to this and stands for connecting residents, nature and recreation.

It will become an attractive landscape park where sustainability and energy transition are pivotal. The runway will become an energy track, where rows of solar panels provide energy for the municipality of Beek. What used to cost energy, now generates energy!

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