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living in the parking lot ...
about a contamination issue
mapping the alps
indeterminate walls
the forest square
antenne bel-air
care spaces
spielfuge
lebenslabor
clutter
house 378
mutua
haus am opernplatz
circus omnibus
demolition as the first stage
raummodell
co-care
pavilion epikur
nobody is an island
genius pyrenaei
white elephant
venusberg II
last places for women
zeile für zeile
wo wir alt werden
das haus als organismus
le phare
poniente
sportzentrum windelsbleiche
how to repair robin hood gardens?
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funkturm
über das wohnen
repair the system
empty beauties
framework for occupation
schwarz zu blau
fresno farmers market
addition
wohnen in sicht
drawing at perceptual limits
mind the gap
collection 01
hotel interim
living metamorphosis
intermission
verrerie
traumhäuser des kollektivs?
dis/assemble
01/17
fermen-t-able
void
drushba
hotel national
forum 27
re-fulfilment centre
beyond demolition
gecekondu
idle water
was ist phase?
das wilde bauen
under the bridge
a (siegen) learning space
ivry’s pier
craftmanship campus
oberhammer
split
extraordinary standards
the collected building
fiktion
documentary of spaces
ko(r)nversion
embracing uncertainty
who cares?
zwischenhaus
concrete operations
triemli+128
house of desires
leipziger allerlei
parasite
zeitdokument
data center
how many rooms you need?
anonynums sculture
rooms of curiosities
neues kösk
on what a shodow falls
post auto mobile
random access memories
panorama
umbau um umbau
kosmos der dinge
superparkmarkt
archifiktionherberge am grimselpass
kraft und licht
wandelhalle nord
reconstruct häring
upcyclinghof
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big mix
atelierhaus
revitalisierung einer werft
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sml
faust III
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melody pourtangestani, alžběta čásenská
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about a contamination issue
The analysis of the Tempelhofer Feld, with particular attention on the old nursery, reveals complex interconnections between the various thematic aspects and opens up a new perspective on how to approach the old nursery. In our project, the stated framework conditions of the Tempelhofer Feld Act, the current lack of economic resources and the historical role of the old nursery as a place of supply are all taken into account. The Tepelhofer Feld Act prohibits the construction of permanent buildings on the site. Only temporary and reversible flying structures are permitted. This legal restriction shapes every architectural decision and has a significant impact on the design process and its outcome. The design focus has shifted from permanence to processuality. At the same time, Berlin’s economic situation, especially the recent cuts in the cultural and educational sectors, defines the scope of action. The current budget crisis reveals a contradiction that is central to understanding the project: the ambitions to keep the spaces on the Tempelhofer Feld open, adaptable and collectively usable collides with the limited means referring to the budget crisis and its administrative implications. Temporary architecture that operates through non-intervention and adaptability can serve as a model in this context. It works with the existing structures, makes use of them and avoids costly interventions. In this sense, economic scarcity becomes the driving force behind a new form of building that is oriented less towards growth than towards transformation. Remediating the contaminated buildings on the site in accordance with TRGS regulations would be costly and technically complex, while demolition would be ecologically problematic. The ecological dimension reveals a particular paradox: in the absence of human use, an autonomous biotope has developed that today provides habitat for numerous endangered species. It is precisely the contamination that has prevented human activity and thereby further stimulated the emergence of ecological diversity. Finally, the history of the old nursery points to its former function of ecological provision. During the operation of the Tempelhof Airport, the site served both for the production of fruit and vegetables and for waste disposal.

Our project takes up this idea of provision a new by creating a place that unites education and ecological perception and carries it forward in the sense of an Impulse Space in which natural and human-made processes interpenetrate and continue to evolve. From these various constraints emerges a structure shaped by the necessity to work with legal restrictions, limited resources and toxic substances. It is an architecture born out of scarcity, responding directly to the specific legal, economic, historical and ecological conditions. In the sense of an Impulse Space those seemingly contradictory premises are translated into a shared spatial logic. The spatial and material approach develops from what is already present. As the conditions of this place continue to change, influenced by ecological processes, political decisions and social use, the architecture itself must remain adaptable. Flexibility becomes a defining quality of this structure. Pneumatic architecture embodies this adaptability in its most radical form. It is mobile, reversible, economical and lightweight. Air, foil and pressure are sufficient to create, transform or dissolve spaces within a short period of time. This lightness is not an aesthetic ideal but an expression of an attitude: architecture as a temporary response to concrete necessity. The pneumatic structure makes it possible to render large areas of the existing buildings accessible again without interfering with their fabric. Instead of remediating or demolishing the contaminated structures, it inserts itself into the existing spaces. A skin of air and foil settles within the buildings, forming new spaces whose scale and shape are defined by the existing architecture. This new layer protects people from the pollutants of the site while at the same time preserving the ecosystem that has developed through the absence of human activity. 

The result is a temporary, non-invasive architecture that creates space for people without disrupting the ongoing evolution of the ecosystem. Moreover, pneumatic architecture possesses a performative character. It is not a fixed object but a process. Air pressure, climate and use influence its form and behaviour. It can expand, contract, overlap or be completely dismantled. Its flexibility allows it to adapt to changing conditions and gives it the potential to remain in place for extended periods of time. When it is no longer needed, it can be reassembled elsewhere. 

The whole  documentation, research und process from the project can be found here















Flora & Fauna on the field and old nursery

When the former airport grounds were first opened to the public, it was uncertain whether rare plant and animal species could persist on the open, dry and sun-exposed areas of the Tempelhofer Feld despite the high number of visitors. Today, it has been proven that nature conservation and recreation can coexist on this vast inner-city open space. With around two million visitors each year, the site is a place of intensive human use while also providing an important habitat for numerous partly endangered species.




  










Outside Spaces

About the development of the old nursery site in the project and core zones.

The interventions in the exterior area respond to the dynamics of the urban novel ecosystem. The space is not a fixed landscape but a processual field. Change is part of the design. Flexible pipelines structure the terrain into project and core zones. They distribute air, water and waste heat, responding to vegetation, use and time. They separate and connect at once, forming an infrastructure in motion that anticipates use without prescribing it. The pipelines create a space of possibility rather than a defined system. Each reactor functions as a temporary laboratory in the field. It can be repositioned, reconnected and adapted to different ecological conditions. Over time, the system moves across the terrain, transforming soil, vegetation and perception.