Brisbane airport’s 2700-hectare urban continua merit the reconsideration of its terrain as important public ecologies whose future, while ultimately indeterminate due to forces of globalisation and technological advancement—can only be strengthened by a robust ecological infrastructure. This project capitalises on two main themes: 1) the uncontrolled expansion of Brisbane airport’s 2700-hectare liminal landscape, and 2) the large amount of dredged material generated annually by Port of Brisbane.

What defines an airport is its perimeter—its liminal terrain. Airports are liminal bodies, they are thresholds between here and beyond, between local and global scales. Utilising the theoretical framework of liminality, Airport Armature strategically considers these issues by an act of thickening—isolating Brisbane airport as an island through landforming by co-opting the vast amounts of dredged material disposed of each year—physically rising above the airport and moulding it into the surrounding landscape.