summaery2025: Projects

Project information

submitted by
Luise Leon Elbern

Mentors
Prof. Tim Simon-Meyer (KEE, BUW), Luise Leon Elbern (KEE, BUW), Julius Tischler (KEE, BUW), Maximilian Hartinger (FG van Rijs, TU Berlin), Tobias Schrammek (AoT, TU Berlin)

Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism

Degree programme:
Architecture (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
Advanced Urbanism (english) (Master of Science (M.Sc.))

Type of project presentation
Exhibition

Semester
Sommersemester2025

• Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8 - Hauptgebäude / Main Building

Available during summaery opening hours

Contributors:
Technische Universität Berlin

Project description

Since the closure of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport in 2008, the Tempelhofer Feld has been the subject of ongoing and contentious debates. While the housing crisis is frequently cited as a reason for developing the site’s borders, others highlight the field’s significance for urban climate regulation, biodiversity and its role as a unique public open space. The area can be understood as an urban palimpsest, shaped over centuries by military, civil and infrastructural uses. In addition to the iconic airport terminal and its expansive runways, dispersed small-scale architectural structures bear witness to these layered histories.
Taking these built artefacts as a starting point, students from Weimar and Berlin worked in dialogue with Grün Berlin, civil society initiatives, experts, and local users to explore this urban landscape. The field was approached as a relational space, where architectural, social, ecological, and material dimensions intersect. The research examined built structures, infrastructures, vegetation, living organisms, and surfaces, both through drawing and critical reflection, across three interrelated scales: Temple (buildings as artefacts), Courtyards (their relationship to environment, use and access) and the Field (as a networked system). The resulting drawings constitute an initial inventory that may serve as a foundation for future transformations and as a critical contribution to the current discourse: the field is already built.