- 2009 Taiwan Strait Climate Change Incubator
- 2009 Xiamen City Energy Masterplan
- 2009 Taichung city masterplan
- 2009 Tempelhof urban ideas competition
TYPE: Competition, 1st prize
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany
PARTNERS: Gross.Max, Buro Happold
Berlin Tempelhof: Airlift into the future - Tempelhof as a communal space and as an alternative Powerplant
The Site of the former Tempelhof Airport has because of its spatial dimensions and its historic significance unique opportunities to show how the future of our cities is going to look like:
Cities which not only consist of low energy structures, but also of energy producing systems and smart networks. We propose a new type of landscape around the central park:
A space where technologies and nature merge; A space where energy is produced by a series of different technologies and a space for learning and experiments.
Clustered around this ring we propose the development of several new city quarters within the context of an international building exhibition. At the core of our proposal is the creation of an innovative management instrument which allows for participation of various stakeholders and inhabitants. This instrument also dynamically adjusts the process of the development towards the ambitious goal of Tempelhof becoming an Energy producer: A communal space which connects people, supplies energy for the adjacent districts and implements the goal of the German government to lower Co2 emissions, radically.
Tempelhof airport can become a bridge towards showing how a future of lower energy use and lower carbon emissions in a city can look like while providing a high quality of life for local residents and creating a symbol of hope and renewal for the city. Our proposal combines local and incremental steps that can each be negotiated by local communities and other interested parties to set up a process based development that is not imposed on anybody but asks everybody to be engaged. Such a process based development works as a participatory tool and has the potential to become a radical proposal by the engaging energy that supplies houses and the rest of the city and other green technology related industry. Our three phases show how such a process based development can look like with very practical design steps that create access to the whole site, new housing for residents, other facilities etc. The last phase demonstrates how an integrated plan for the whole area could lead to a radical result: to create the economy and social, cultural and political context to turn the whole area into an alternative powerplant: Tempelhof becomes an energy generator through a range of measures that add quality of life to local rresidents as well as contributes to the overall city and German target of lowering CO2 emissions in cities.
- 2009 Northwich cultural centre competition
- 2009 Scuytgraaf De Landing
- 2009 Schuytgraaf 17b
- 2009 Arnhem cultural masterplan
- 2008 Schuytgraaf N837
- 2008 Knokke Heist
- 2007 Carlsberg urban incubator
- 2007 Poplar Riverside
- 2007 Woolwich squares
- 2007 Jiangxi Museum for Natural History, Science and Technology
- 2006 Taichung Towers
- 2005 Homerton Pavilion
