This idea competition is the first official movement toward a re-integration of the deactivated Tempelhof Airport with the city of Berlin. The Columbiaviertel, located on the north part of the airport field, is the first area to be developed. The main preoccupation was the idea of phase development with a pioneer function to lead it.

We proposed, among several other things, the creation of a red light district as the pioneer function, which would lead the development of a main leisure strip (inspired by the Las Vegas or Hollywood strip) along the Columbiadamm, reinforcing its characteristic as a large and important avenue. Together with this development, the creation of secondary, low-traffic meander, would allow houses, office buildings, commercial facilities, to enter the airfield and create a different environment suitable for these typologies.

This was the first phase of this open competition, where our project was selected together with other 11 offices (from a total of around 80 participants) for further development in the second phase. Given our unusual approach, the project gained a lot of attention from the media when the results were announced in January, 2008 (when they were still to remain anonymous).