This is a real urban camping zone placed in an old and dismissed outdoor swimming pool area. Only a few minutes by feet from Hauptbahnof, Berlin's central train station, a green area guests people with their tents. The old pool is now a playground for skaters and a concert-area.
Waiting for a new function, the historical and dismissed Berlin airport is today a huge public park for the city.
What's happening all around?
What does cities development let behind itself?
How does it effect the areas surrounding the new architecture and more in general around new urban intervention?
What happen when a new urban plan is superimposed on an existing space?
Wich are the consequences of these processes?
What does urban planning ignore?
Cities grow while they modify themselves and move letting waste behind them: as the car generate CO2 and we trash plastic to eat salad, our cities produce waste made by things, people, spaces and places.This is the first post of a series-in-progress to try to get trough the topics coming from these questions.This will be a diary from forgotten spaces about the image of our lost urbanscapes.
This project came out reading two interesting books: Wasted lives by Zigmunt Bauman and Junkspace by Rem Koolhas.
Portraits of people lying down in the field and having a rest after concerts at Budapest Sziget.
Life in the new harbour area between construction yards and the new public spaces.
