Tempelhofer Feld. Berlin

  • Drawings: M-OST Malgorzata Zmyslowska
  • Advicers: Joanna Erbel, Thomas Guethler
  • Idea Competition: 2025

The planning vision for Tempelhofer Feld includes a „carpet of ideas” for the future – not based primarily on conventional planning methods, but rather on new, creative, and sustainable solutions for the needs of the urban community. These solutions can’t be fully captured by traditional spatial or temporal urban and landscape planning methods.
What’s needed is a shift in perspective – seeing nature as a new way of gardening (and planning), as Gilles Clément suggests in The Gardener’s Wisdom: „From now on, it is about engaging with the living. To look at it closely and get to know it. To connect with it in friendship.

In 1832, Caspar David Friedrich painted The Large Enclosure, a vast, seemingly natural yet human-shaped floodplain landscape. Such open vistas, often present in his works, are not just landscapes but “soulscapes,” pointing to a deeper longing – already threatened in the 19th century.
Tempelhofer Feld is such a place of longing, redefining the relationship between nature and the ever-present cityscape. Its sweeping, open views to the horizon offer visual escape from city chaos and let people experience the night sky with minimal light pollution – beneficial not only for the eyes, but for mental health, promoting peace, freedom, and connectedness with the world.

Humans could live together — with one another, and also with other species. But they need to want it.

The image of Tempelhofer Feld as a „home for all” is a spatial and political manifesto. It expands the usual meaning of the word and understands public space as an extended living space for everyone — regardless of origin, cultural context, social status, or even species — by also including the non-human „residents” of the field.

The „Holobiont” — a term introduced by biologist Lynn Margulis — is composed of the three Greek elements Hólos (όλος) meaning all, whole, entire; bíos (βίος) meaning life; and óntos (όντος) meaning being, entity. It originally referred to a biological system consisting of a eukaryotic host organism and multiple prokaryotic species that live closely together with it.

The “home for all” is oriented toward the needs of this holobiont or „collective living being” and follows the principles of growth and reuse. It can become a model for a sustainable urban development that unites social, economic, and ecological values.

1 – Kitchen, Dining Room:

Urban gardening, raised beds, orchards, allotment gardens, café pavilions, picnic areas

2 – Wiesebaden (meadow bathing):

Birdhouses, rain gardens, individual tree and shrub plantings

3 – Retreat Spaces:

Miyawaki forests with clearings of various characters, seating areas, playgrounds, or table tennis tables

4 – Living Room, Fern-sehen:

Amphitheater, event space, playgrounds, or table tennis tables

Open competition and discussion on the development of Tempelhofer Feld in 2025 — many thanks to Joanna Erbel and Thomas Guethler for their advice and support.

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