This thesis investigates lighter than
air architecture, the human desire to
become ungrounded, to inhabit the sky
and how the resultant architecture could
redefine the relationship between the city,
public space and energy provision.
The thesis proposal was derived from
the rich history of flight and innovation
identified in our initial reading of the
Tempelhof Feld site, a former airfield.
The design proposal is for a horizontal
layered skyscape floating above Tempelhof
Feld in the distant future, an antithesis to
the weight of the past reaching over the
city of Berlin. The design is suspended
between speculation and reality, an
architecture of fantasy, as buoyant and
variable as the clouds it inhabits
