Tempelhof Parkland

From Airport to Tempelhof Parkland

“The outstanding quality of the design concept is manifested in its very clear central idea, which is the product of a close examination of the urban figure and the scale of the airport building and the very spacious site. It opens up an opportunity to completely reinterpret the site, give it a new, strong identity with a supra-regional impact and put the monumentality of the airport building into perspective, while nonetheless doing justice to it.” (Assessment of the decision-making body)

all photos © Roger Freyer Bus trips gave an impres- The second stage of the Members of the public © gross.max sion of the dimensions of public participation made extensive use of the “Participation and involvement are the main urban development challenges in the site. In dialogue with process in August 2010 opportunity to express the 21st century. We have already tackled this challenge in Tempelhof.” interested members of the also attracted numerous their wishes and contribute (Regula Lüscher) public in October 2009. visitors. their ideas.

In dialogue with interested members of the public in October 2009. “I like the GROSS.Max. design, because it does not reconstruct the past, but initially leaves a large part of the area empty so that it can be developed step by step. I also like the fact that the runways are maintained and the fundamental historical structures remain visible. The runways are developing at the moment into a boulevard – like Kurfürstendamm – but one showing a society devoted to recreation not to © gross.max commerce anymore.” The Procedure A visitors pavilion is to be Tempelhofer Feld is gradu (Matthias Lilienthal) The closing of Tempelhof Airport gave Berlin a unique opportunity to This includes the visibility of the horizon which is unmatched anywhere built in the middle of the ally developing into a new develop an inner-city parkland of extraordinary dimensions. In March else in the inner city. The challenge resides in structuring this vast parkland. type of parkland. 2010, the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development held an expanse without neutralising it. The ideas and wishes put forward during the public participation pro open international landscape design and realization competition for cess contributed to the formulation of the competition brief. Despite “The design deals in specific detail with the site. It takes up its unique features Tempelhof. From the outset the people of Berlin were closely involved Public involvement different positions – ranging from criticism of the closing of the airport and enhances them. It is only conceivable at the Tempelhof airfield and is in the development process. In the autumn of 2007 a web-based public dialogue was conducted at to anticipation, curiosity about the parkland and rejection of some of thus highly distinctive.” Tempelhofer Freiheit1 comprising the airport building, the apron in the start of a process of intense public involvement, which elicited pro the planned future uses – the residents of the adjoining neighbour (Assessment of the decision-making body) front of the hangars and the over two-kilometre long runways is a Berlin posals from 1,400 participants. hoods responded with great sensitivity to the plans and ideas that In August 2010 the Senate Department for Urban Development invit landmark site. Tempelhof Parkland is a place for quiet retreat and active The next step was a representative written public survey carried out were submitted and welcomed a closer involvement of the public ed the public to view the selected schemes and resume their partici recreation, a natural landscape with valuable flora and fauna, a site of in the summer of 2009. Six thousand questionnaires were distributed to in the ongoing planning process. pation in a dialogue on the design of the parkland. Visitors were able spectacle and representation, and a location of great historical signifi randomly selected households in the area around Tempelhofer Feld2. to engage in a face-to-face discussion of the designs with representa “The Tempelhof Parkland should grow with its users.” cance. The parkland heralds an innovative approach to the use of natu The 25 per cent response rate was very good. One thousand question IBA and IGA as development tools tives of the six prize-winning teams in Section A2 of the airport build (One of the many thousands of suggestions from the public workshops) ral resources and will become an area that can be experienced and naires were dispatched to all parts of Berlin. The response rate here An International Building Exhibition (IBA) and an International ing. Once again attendance was high, the total number of 2,400 vis enjoyed by people from all walks of life in the city. was 30 per cent. Almost 50 per cent of the respondents could imagine Horticultural Exhibition (IGA) will be used as tools to accelerate the itors underlining that the people of Berlin remain keenly interested Another objective is to connect the new parkland with the different becoming involved in the design and use of the parkland. development of Tempelhofer Freiheit. Therefore, one of the tasks in being involved in the shaping of the Tempelhof Parkland. social milieus in the adjoining neighbourhoods of Nord-Neukölln, In addition to the questionnaires, invitations were sent out calling formulated in the competition brief was to prepare the ground for the From early September the teams undertook a revision of their “The landscape architects have a feeling for the grand gesture but also for Kreuzberg and Tempelhof-Schöneberg and with the new urban quar on the recipients to take part in chaired discussions in focus groups. IGA 2017. As an event with general public appeal, IGA 2017 will help plans in the course of the negotiated procedure. Four colloquia were more restrained tones. Their design transforms an airfield into a park without ters that are to be built. It was also important to have a concept that People with an immigration background, in particular, were thus given to visualise the process of transformation at Tempelhofer Freiheit. held with the six teams, each of them coming together separately with obliterating its past and the vestiges of its uses. On the contrary, they are highlighted.” would provide a clear framework for the future parkland, but leave an opportunity to have their say in detailed exchanges. Seventeen the decision-making body consisting of international experts and rep (Regula Lüscher) room for changes over a long period of development without impairing group interviews were conducted. The lively interest shown continued Type of procedure resentatives of the Senate and the Districts of Berlin. Joint discussions its distinctiveness. in October 2009, when over 3,500 visitors responded to a call from the The competition was held in March 2010 as an open landscape design with all the teams were held in conclusion. The individual designs All these requirements had to be considered by the entrants in the Berlin Senate Department to contribute to the schemes for the future of competition to be followed by a negotiated procedure. The two-tier underwent changes in the course of this dialogue and were adapted competition who were required to coordinate them in an appropriate Tempelhofer Feld at the site itself. On the morning of 3 October, barely a procedure consisted of (i) the competition with a structural plan to the requirements of the site. Finally, the decision-making body spatial and functional setting. The schemes submitted were to be based year after the airport had closed, Hangar 1 was opened for the first time encompassing urban development and landscape architecture and (ii) issued a unanimous recommendation in March 2011 that GROSS.MAx. on a utilization of the space by ‘pioneers’, i.e. groups organising them to the general public. The heavy steel doors were pushed aside to offer the negotiated procedure to give the landscape architecture design and Sutherland Hussey, Edinburgh, be commissioned to undertake selves in semi-public spaces, and thus on the creativity and initiative visitors an intriguing view of the former airfield. greater depth and detail. The competition was anonymous up to the further work. In April 2011 the winning entry submitted by Eelco of the urban community. While exhibitions and guided tours were organised for information end of the jury meeting. The following six prize winners were selected Hooftmann and Daniel Reiser from GROSS.MAx. was presented to purposes, the focus on this occasion was on face-to-face dialogue. to participate in the subsequent negotiated procedure: interested residents. Following the panel discussion Grün Berlin Urban development as a process A TED survey provided an opportunity for an exchange of views on GmbH, Tempelhof Projekt GmbH and the Senate Department for The new Tempelhof Parkland will be an open space of great significance the master plan, which was on display, as well as on other planning • GROSS.MAx. landscape architects, Edinburgh; Urban Development were available for discussion as part of the Coordination Design www.tempelhoferfreiheit.de for the whole of Berlin and have an impact far beyond the boundaries material. All manner of contributions could be witnessed at the working Sutherland and Hussey, Architects, Edinburgh ongoing dialogue. Senate Department for Oliver Kleinschmidt, Berlin www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/aktuell/wettbewerbe/ergebnisse/ of the city. In all the phases of its development the parkland will offer a tables of this Tempelhof workshop, where young and old had an oppor Urban Development and Environment www.buero-kleinschmidt.de 2010/parklandschaft_tempelhof/ Section II D • BASE landscape architects, Paris; anOtherArchitect, Berlin www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/aktuell/wettbewerbe/ergebnisse/ range of attractive facilities that can be used irrespective of the progress tunity to demonstrate their creativity by using pencil and paper to Almut Jirku Printed by 2011/parklandschaft_thf_verhandlungsverfahren/ • Topotek1 Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin; Dürig Architekten, Zurich 1 Tempelhofer Freiheit is the name of an urban development project initiated by the Berlin Senate Brückenstraße 6 druckhaus köthen made in the overall development of the site. The participants in the produce their own maps and plans. www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/planen/tempelhof/ • bbzl böhm benfer zahiri landschaften städtebau, Berlin Department for Urban Development in 2008 for the post-closure use of the airport site. 10179 Berlin competition were therefore obliged to picture the parkland as emerg In May 2010, Tempelhofer Feld was opened to Berliners and their Published by Photo credits Senate Department for Urban Editing, text GROSS.MAx. landscape architects • Capatti Staubach Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin; 2 Originally the name of the fields of the Knights Templar residing in the village of Tempelhof ing gradually in a lengthy process of development. guests under the motto “Freedom to Move”. Over 230,000 people came Development and Environment ts|pk thies schröder planungskommunikation Sutherland Hussey architects March 2012 (Court of the Templars). Later on the site became a military training ground, then the first civilian Tempelhof Parkland Christoph Mayer, architect, Berlin Am Köllnischen Park 3 Thies Schröder, Sandra Rosenkranz Roger Freyer The term parkland was deliberately chosen to emphasise that this along during the first weekend to experience the broad expanse of the • Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten, Dresden; airport in Europe. Since 2008, when aviation operations at Tempelhof Airport ceased, the term 10179 Berlin Bernauer Straße 8a is not a park in the traditional sense, but a very special space that will former airport for themselves. Since that time it has been used daily Tempelhofer Feld has been used again to describe the area between Hasenheide recreational park 10115 Berlin Translation Rohdecan Architekten, Dresden and the circular suburban railway line. www.ts-pk.eu Robert Bryce, Berlin The Concept combine features of a park with the experience of a landscape. by some 10,000 people for walks, sporting activities and recreation. As at April 2011 The scheme submitted by GROSS. MAX.

The Gross.Max. design (as at April 2011) revolves essen- meadowland. The biological diversity is treated with great Areas of intensive use are closely linked, while more tially around the integration of the airport building and care; the existing trees at Alter Hafen will be preserved extensive areas, especially the central grassland, have the former runways into the parkland by the simple and and supplemented. The central grassland is a moving field fewer connecting routes. This gives rise to both lively and natural use of a circle and an oval. The circular shape, of flowers and grasses that will incorporate a few of the quieter areas in the parkland, which meets the needs of derived from the airport building, is created by means of a current unused buildings and the rock. The latter will pro- nature conservation. The park joints link the central land small landform with the circumference of a quadrant and vide a new landmark – an elevation, a climbing rock and a scape area with the residential quarters, thus allowing by paths that complete the circle. The oval consists of the monument for Humboldt. The rock relates in spatial terms for an exchange of cold air. existing taxiways and new overlapping paths. The east- to the monument in Viktoriapark and the radar tower. west runways and a new north-south path establish links The design harbours great potential for an innovative park with the surroundings. A pavilion with an information The ring with its overlapping circuits creates a dynamic concept. It succeeds in designing a park of high utilization point and a restaurant is to be erected at the junction of zone in which there will be room for small-scale uses. value while maintaining the character of the airport. the northern runway and the north-south path. Here, close to the residential quarters, there will be space for numerous, small-scale, everyday facilities, such as a A water basin and connecting watercourse begins at the children’s play area, barbecue sites, etc. Pioneer uses eastern end of the apron to the south of the taxiway and that have proved their value can be maintained here as moves westwards along the boundary between the apron semi-public areas. and the terrain. This is a perfectly natural form of delinea tion. The round area in the vicinity of the apron can be used as a sky mirror in summer and ice rink in winter. The huge expanse of Tempelhofer Freiheit will produce a 360-degree parkland. No matter where you are, you can see the sky, the horizon and the urban panorama. The vastness can be experienced in the large areas of

Water basin and airport building Elevation model Ice rink Fascinating openness Pioneer vegetation New paths Pioneer area Semi-public areas Unimpeded views Ruderal vegetation Multiple uses Rock monument © gross.max. Landschaftsarchitekten und sutherland Hussey architekten Stage III after the end of the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition (completion of the parkland), as at April 2011 Tempelhofer Freiheit 1 An interview with Eelco Hooftman of GROSS. MAX., winners of the competition for the design of Tempelhof Parkland

During the first stage of the competition you But 19th century landscape art is not necessarily Are you saying that a process of change is inher asked who was afraid of the urban void. a useful source for a 21st century park. ent, as it were, in the DNA of Tempelhofer Feld?

John ruskin, the illustrious art critic of the The vastness of the site at Tempelhofer Feld2 The site has been transformed over time, but British romantic period of the 19th century, produces am almost overwhelming sense of it has always remained a distinct and coherent wrote of modern landscape art: “If a general space. We were surprised how many people in entity. We like the idea of metamorphosis, the and characteristic name were needed for Berlin have an affinity with this essential quali unfolding of the site over time. The history of modern landscape art, none better could ty of the site. most importantly, of course, the the site represents a cycle of development; be invented than ‘the service of the clouds’.” effect is liberating; the independent citizen each phase opens up new uses and program It is precisely the vast openness of Tempelhof becomes a creative explorer once again. matic possibilities. an important and defining which makes it unique: a 360 degree diorama aspect of landscape architecture is that it deals of the sky, of the Himmel über Berlin (English The site is a palimpsest of time. We should, of with time and therefore focuses on processes film title Wings of Desire). at Tempelhof the course, be bold and add a new contemporary of change, transformation and duration. Land sky and meteorology play a role that is layer. The circulation we have proposed, for scape architecture helps to shape a world in almost overwhelming. example, creates a dynamic orbit. The circular constant flux and evolution. embankment outlines the scale of the former airport building – the second largest building 2 originally the name of the fields of the Knights Templar residing in the vil façade in the world – and extends this facade lage of Tempelhof (Court of the Templars). Later on the site became a mili into the future park. The composition also tary training ground, then the first civilian airport in Europe. since 2008, 1 Tempelhofer Freiheit is the name of an urban development project when aviation operations at Tempelhof airport ceased, the term Tempel initiated by the Berlin senate Department for Urban Development in 2008 facilitates clear spatial and programmatic hofer Feld has been used again to describe the area between Hasenheide for the post-closure use of the airport site. zoning. recreational park and the circular suburban railway line. What role does nature play in your design? Can you draw a comparison between the all But what about the key feature of the site, powerful eye of the airport radar and the differ the open central grassland? Nature is not an object but a process. While ent concentric rings of the Berlin green structure? nature conservation may be appropriate in We like the notion of what in great Britain is certain areas of the site, we prefer the notion as always, it is fascinating to see the bigger called a ‘green’ or ‘common’, a large expanse of of ‘nature activation’. We like the analogy picture. The green structure of Berlin provides emptiness as an antidote to the congested between pioneer users and pioneer vegetation a kind of new ecological and meteorological city. But this central field should also become a developing over time into more complex spa airlift. The green structure of Berlin is like a spectacle: large sweeping fields of colour and tial and programmatic entities. In such a sce matryoshka doll from russia. We hope that a buzz of bees, butterflies and skylarks. at the nario man and nature are no longer divided the emblematic composition of our design moment this area consists of about 80 per cent but participants in the same process. reflects that. grass and 20 per cent shrubs. We propose a maintenance programme to enhance the Tempelhofer Feld provides a stepping stone We had a very lively debate in the jury about the biodiversity. for plant and animal communities on the curved embankment. Will it lead to an uninten move in times of climate change. our attitude tional division of the site? Is the gesture too for The monumental rock is an amazing structure. is not the same as free for all; of course we mal or too artificial? We could hardly believe our eyes when we saw it. structure, compose and orchestrate. For us the former airport building is the key to That was exactly our intention! It’s difficult to What about integration into the unlock the potential of the site. We like the ref justify in terms of rational arguments, but we urban surroundings? erence to the georgian royal Crescent in the like it nevertheless. It’s another element from city of Bath – the notion that a building can the traditional repertoire of landscape art – Tempelhof should operate simultaneously on capture and define a wide expanse of space. a ‘foreign body’. In Berlin there is a long tradi a diversity of scales. on the scale of the city it The curved embankment articulates this rela tion of combining landscape and monuments. provides an outdoor living room and events tionship, but in a subtle manner. The sceno In fact, the composition of the former airport area for the entire metropolis of Berlin. graphy rests on a descending height of the building is entirely orientated on schinkel’s along the park edges and ring, especially at embankment, which allows for changing per monument to the Wars of Liberation erected the various entrance points, it accommodates spectives, and a dynamic sense of enclosure. in 1821 in Victoria Park. our monument is a neighbourhood facilities. The true potential The overall effect is not only defined by the tribute to alexander von Humboldt, who was of Tempelhof will be only unlocked if we can embankment, but also by the slightly sunken the first to study the geographical distribution provide the connections with the green inner circle, which can be used for events and, of plants on the basis of altitude. The rock structure of Berlin beyond the site itself. in the winter, inundated to form a natural ice monument will not enclose but articulate rink. The ring of ice is not only a programmatic the openness and expanse of the site. It will The scale of the park justifies a process-orien device, but also – as a frozen liquid mirror provide a provocative landmark that will assist tated approach. We are providing connectivity reflecting the sky – an important aesthetic the branding of the Tempelhof site. for both man and nature. once that connectiv intervention. ity has been established, we can afford to do Can you say something about the ring? very little on the site itself. The ring consists of overlapping circuits. This provides a dynamic edge condition which creates a zone for smaller-scale activities such as sport, allotments, dog walks, skateboarding, etc. The landscape contains orchards, a large wave of coppice plantation, sweeping fields of crops as well as meadows and grassland with a variety of maintenance regimes. special habi tats will be formed out of broken-up fragments of the former airport taxiway in the southern part of the site. The circulation rings permit different speeds of movement and transport.

© gross.max. Landschaftsarchitekten und sutherland Hussey architekten © gross.max. Landschaftsarchitekten und sutherland Hussey architekten Stage I up to the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition Stage II during the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition (emergence of the park framework) (development of innovative landscapes)

Kommunikation, Am Köllnischen Park 3, 10179 Berlin, [email protected], www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de © Gross.Max. Landschaftsarchitekten und sutherland Hussey architekten

Urban urge by Henri Bava

Challenge Landscape architects like to design places tion jury. Their understanding of the specific has produced a different, linear horizontality considered difficult and unrewarding and nature of the undertaking had to be such that adding to the enormous dimensions of the sometimes regarded as ugly even. In such their project would reflect its essence and site. This horizontality is reinforced, and slight cases they appear on the scene to salvage a move it ahead as if the two were in complete ly disturbed, by the vertical thrust of the rock seemingly hopeless situation and remedy it harmony – the product, as it were, of a secret and by a number of trees, which ‘infect’ the through their endeavours. If they are brought pact concluded long before with the original ‘uncontaminated’ flatness of the grassland. in to enhance a carefully planned and well designers. The slightly sunken, bowl-shaped composi fashioned project like Tempelhof, however, tion also contributes to this enlivened and which enjoys general appreciation and is Horizontality enhanced horizontal dimension, albeit in a simply wonderful, the challenge they face The landscape architects Eelko Hooftmann deliberately restrained manner, through its is much tougher. and Bridget Baines from Gross. Max. have done capacity for inundation and transformation justice to the outstanding character of Tempel into a natural ice rink in winter – a frozen liquid In the case of Tempelhof the main task con hof not by ‘adding’ anything, but by embracing mirror reflecting the sky – and the provision fronting the designer teams was to transform the existing nexus of connections and lending of space for gardens during the International an airport into a public park, to convert a it greater intensity through their essentially Horticultural Exhibition. The hollows it com screened off and tightly controlled arena into ground-based work. prises intensify the horizontal dimension and a completely open urban space. keep guard over it. In taking up many of the The designers have preserved the horizontal items included in the programme they enable This placed very considerable demands on the character of the site, while at the same time the huge area of grassland to better fulfil its landscape architects selected by the competi extending it with the circular landform. This function as a ‘common’. © Gross.Max. Landschaftsarchitekten und sutherland Hussey architekten

Curves The curved airport building appears to open which is defined by a few identifiable objects Tempelhofer Feld (originally the name of the its arms to the huge runways of Tempelhof, and, like a large piazza, extends the airport sur fields of the Knights Templar residing in the which form a broad plain in the heart of Berlin, face outwards, is flanked on both sides by new village of Tempelhof (Court of the Templars) in a powerful embrace that links the massive residential quarters. In their sturdy resistance will unite different urban pathways and serve building and the unobstructed terrain. In the to the orbit of the circular perimeter paths, as an important place of encounter in the Gross. Max. design the curve of the building the two runways that have been preserved midst of an uninterrupted and coherent sys seems to have triggered a circular oscillation embody a horizontal monumentality and a tem of parks. Tempelhof will provide a link that has produced a network of paths. This source of tension within the bends and curves. from one urban neighbourhood to the next. dynamic movement is reminiscent of the They are a testimony to the past and the huge duplicated figures in andy Warhol’s paintings machines that once took off and landed here Movement and collages. The geometry is not rigid but in with elegant ease. In their scheme the Gross. Max. landscape motion; it is intimated and integrated. It offers architects have merged the preservation of the a multitude of spaces that can be used and The artificial rock, which pays tribute to alex setting and the sensuousness of the landscape exploited by different groups of visitors. ander von Humboldt, is a compact material with their own specific project design. They symbol of upward progress – the ascent of have thus succeeded in maintaining the spirit Sky the future climber and the historical rise of Tempelhof while at the same time setting The sky is incorporated into the scheme by of aviation. the site almost imperceptibly in motion. means of these project elements. They do not Their proposal that different park curators attempt to assert control over the entire set Centrality should be brought in on an annual basis ting, but instead work together with the open Thanks to the efforts of Gross. Max. this underlines this concept of movement and tes space, rather like the figures in a Miro painting magnificent location will have a positive tifies to their creativity and a spirit of innova placed in the abstract depiction of a large impact on the everyday lives of many tion rooted in the notion that a park is ‘not an space with no hope of filling it, yet giving it Berliners. It will fill everyone with a sense object but a process’. although their approach meaning nonetheless. Hence this open space, of its unique quality. is very clear and formal, it is geared to enchantment rather than formalism.

Kommunikation, Am Köllnischen Park 3, 10179 Berlin, [email protected], www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de Vogelfreiheit, an adventure play ground for children and young people, was the first long-term pioneer project to be located in the parkland. The playground was an award winner in the 2007 online dialogue competition held during the conceptual design phase prior to the re-opening of the airport.

It is not just the fascinating open expanse of land that attracts large number of visitors to Tempelhofer Feld.2 Another reason to discover and enjoy the vast new outdoor space in the heart of Berlin are the pioneer uses that have been established there. These so-called interim uses offer attractive facilities for people seeking relaxation and recuperation.

Development and objectives Several ideas workshops attended by interna occupied to grow their businesses, thereby tional experts were held in 2007/2008 during creating jobs and training themselves in inter the preparatory conceptual design phase of the disciplinary cooperation and trans-disciplinary project for the future use of Tempelhof Airport. research. It was here that the idea was born of systemati cally integrating intermediate and pioneer uses The pioneer projects are selected to fit in with into the urban development process for the six key themes: innovation platform, sport and first time. health, neighbourhood integration, dialogue on religion, future technologies, knowledge and Intermediate and pioneer users open up areas learning. The selection procedure will initially and spaces for the introduction of what are continue on an annual basis until 2015. Partici often innovative uses. The utilisation of these pants in pioneer projects conclude three-year spaces in the city puts them back in the public usage agreements. Planning and building per eye. Intermediate and pioneer users are increas mission matches that time frame, which all ingly turning into important cooperation part those involved regard as a probationary period. ners for the administrative authorities in the At present Tempelhofer Feld is home to 13 © Tempelhof Projekt GmbH city. They help to generate business momentum pioneer projects on pioneer sites covering an The focus in the area near Columbiadamm is on sport and by putting new life into shopping streets and area of 12 to 19 hectares that are earmarked health. This is where jugger is played. Originally a comic, jugger become a cult movie and has now been turned residential neighbourhoods and, as start-up for future construction and so permit only into a sport. entrepreneurs, they use the spaces they have limited use.

1 Tempelhofer Freiheit is the name of an urban development project 2 Originally the name of a military training and parade ground of the Berlin initiated by the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development in 2008 garrison. Since 2008, when aviation operations at Tempelhof Airport ceased, for the post-closure use of the airport site. the term Tempelhofer Feld has been used to describe the area between Hasenheide recreational park and the circular suburban railway line. The pilot project basis.wis sen.schafft sees itself as an interface between the questions put by civil soci ety and the answers given by research institutions. Based on the international science shops, the project promotes dialogue at the local level between the scientific community and the general public. The emphasis here is on local counselling, the pass ing on of knowledge and communication.

© Tempelhof Projekt GmbH nuture miniARTgolf ist is a golf course designed by 18 artists that consists of 18 interactive mini-golf courses. The golf courses are interactive works of art that function like pinball games. The courses change and move, they light up, make noises and react to the players.

© Tempelhof Projekt GmbH The pioneer project Arche Metropolis with the lucky dragon Mukti will be launched at Tempelhofer Freiheit2 in the spring of 2012. The dragon will open up the area for the Arche building site, on which a mobile, modular university of the future will be erected. © Tempelhof Projekt GmbH Arche Metropolis is an art The Plattenvereinigung project, which set up at the site in 2011 and staged various events project in which people and discussions in the course of one season, subsequently looked around for a successor. come together to seek Vogelfreiheit will take over the building and use it as a clubhouse until the end of 2013. solutions for future social Plattenvereinigung sets quality standards with its discussions, recycling approach and cooperation. practical implementation in a participatory building site and acts as a source of inspiration for the other pioneer projects. © Tempelhof Projekt GmbH

Allmende Kontor in Oderstraße is a community garden project in which people of different ages and nationalities get together to do gardening, exchange ideas and pursue common interests.

Lernort Natur and MINTgrünes Klassenzimmer are also situated in Oderstraße. Lernout enables pre-school chil dren to experience nature and learn about the environ ment. Together with MINTgrünes Klassenzimmer it tries out new ways of teaching. © Tempelhof Projekt GmbH

Pioneer project contact Tempelhof Projekt GmbH, Ines Rudolph, Columbiadamm 10, D2, 12101 Berlin, www.tempelhoferfreiheit.de

Kommunikation, Am Köllnischen Park 3, 10179 Berlin, [email protected], www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de