Abstract
Cities are places of concentrated functions and uses, places filled with sense and purpose. There are areas for living and industry, culture and transport, administration, services, recreation. On a map of a city, there appears to be no place for spaces or voids without any function. Where many people and many requirements meet, the limited space has to be used optimally. But urban voids exist. Examples are the Tempelhofer Feld area in Berlin. That lost its original function. the urban voids were given a new meaning. The Tempelhof area in Berlin today offers space for recreation, sports, culture, and urban gardening and, thus, meets the citizens’ demands for free creative space. Most of these large areas have long been converted into new residential, shopping, and cultural districts with an attractive industrial architecture. Now, two questions arise: Can the city further condense inside? And can this happen smoothly and sustainably? If cities are not to grow to the outside into the landscape in the future, we will have to find the solution inside. This research addresses former airports in cities, as urban voids and cases of exception, and examines two case studies (Tempelhof/ Berlin in Germany and Imbaba/Giza in Egypt). They are being discussed as potential urban commons while acknowledging the cultural, historical, political, economic and urban complexities and specificities that each of the two cities and the respective countries entail
Presenters
Ahmed RadwanAssociate Professor, Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts - Helwan University, Egypt
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