| About Graft |
| Project | VoloPort |
| Architects | Graft |
| Project partners | Georg Schmidthals, Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit |
| Project lead | Sebastian Massmann |
| Design lead | Marta Piaseczynska |
| Project team | Julia Korpacka, Tatiana Lebedeva |
| Year | 2021: Commission for VoloPort together with Arup and Bayards Aluminium Constructies 2019: First prototype built in Singapore by GRAFT Brandlab 2018: Competition, 1st prize, together with GRAFT Brandlab and Arup |
Description by designers
The German eVTOL design company Volocopter is a pioneer of Urban Air Mobility and develops fully electric vertical take-off aircraft as a mobility solution for use in urban areas. As a hub for the Volocopter aircraft, the VoloPort vertiport was devised by GRAFT in collaboration with Volocopter, Arup and Bayards Aluminium Constructies.
The VoloPort is part of the Volocopter modular urban air mobility infrastructure network and acts as a gateway within the public realm. Suited to the constraints of densely populated areas, its compact, modular and expandable design can be employed in a variety of inner-city locations – either on the ground, on the roof of a high-rise building or on a floating, water-based platform.