Regeneration of the former Tempelhof airport

‘Urban regeneration’ has been an important concept for many post industrial urban areas. There might be uncountable reasons why the places need to be regenerated with the urban complexity. Some places are simply too old and some of them are too small for the new urban demands. Sometimes the urban places are forced to be regenerated by war or terror attack. However, we can find the common motivation from all the regeneration cases, it can be summed up in ‘losing or challenging the original function’. The ultimate goal of every single urban regeneration process is ‘making better place’, and the process will be done by replacing, modifying or strengthening the original function. In this project, the urban regeneration process is started by the lost function as a city airport. The key element is ‘Emptiness’. Regeneration by emptiness is not special cases in this post modern era, for example, many industrial sites and factories moved away from urban area and the empty places have been filled with diverse new functions. However, this project has its very special aspect from its extreme size. ‘380ha space of inner-city’ was emptied in a day. Moreover, the nature of airport is giving a very different perspective to the project – it is all _at, hardly connected surrounding urban fabric, controlled by one single building, unusual topography by the runways, and etc. In short, the main concern of the project is about how the huge emptiness can be filled with new urban functions for the metropolis Berlin and the neighborhoods, at the same time, it will be considered which part of the space can be preserved for the future of Berlin.

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urban regeneration

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2010-07-05

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