Parklandschaft Tempelhofer Feld

GROSS. MAX. won in 2010 the international landscape design competition for the transformation of the decommissioned Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport. The design proposal forms the basis of an economically viable and sustainable masterplan and creates a new 360 hectares city park based upon a new typology of park landscape for the 21st century which combines nature, production, and recreation. The project was based on the notion of ‘nature activation’ and ‘pioneer users’ who will colonize and transform the site over time into more complex spatial and programmatic entities. The project operates on a diversity of scales. On the scale of the city, it provides an unprecedented outdoor living room and events area for the entire metropolis of Berlin. Along the park edges it provides for new housing and community activities. Most important is the connectivity with the open space system of the surrounding urban districts and the wider green structure of Berlin beyond.