The friction inevitably ensuing from placing a technical project of the scale of the overall development of the new airport at Munich 2 into cultivated agrarian country, was intended to remain perceptible and to create an awareness of the features of the scenic environment - flat, spacious, open, cultivated, as contrasted with the main features of the airport - a hightech, cosmopolitan attitude. Analogous to the wide open plain, the spatial arrangement of the buildings emphazises horizontality. Rather than regarding the buildings in terms of volume, they are perceived as stratification of the different levels of use and function.