Resilience
Winter is Berlin's natural season. 
No city is more redolent of Cold War, and no Berlin location evokes that extremely complicated historical period quite like Tempelhof Airport.
Tempelhof is alive, and that could have been just under the city’s protection. Its vast area is now dedicated to pedestrians, cyclists and nature.
The space hosts many events and concerts. Here you can meet people while they are having a walk or flying a kite, all over the year.
Recently its hangars have been converted in accommodations for refugees arrived in Germany escaping war and poverty. 
Tempelhof represents Struggle and Resistance, as well. It represents a battle against history, in which an entire city has fought against and within itself, in which the rest of the world chose to split it in two opposite factions. This two opposite universes were stubbornly demarcated, divided and fenced off by more than 150 kilometers of barbed-wire and reinforced concrete walls.
In the May 2014 the Berliners, through a referendum, raised against the gentrification process, expressing their firmly decision to ensure that Tempelhof would have kept intact and untouched by any property and economic speculation. 
The true soul of Tempelhof is his proud and stubborn invariance, everything must remain exactly how it is, how it always has been. In 2014, once it was declared a not operative area, Tempelhof became an enormous space, with no specific logistic function. This space is in continue evolution and prepared to host, in future, almost every kind of conceivable human activity.
Since 2010, when it became a public space, the Berliners slowly regained possession of Tempelhof, making it one of the unique places that characterize Berlin.
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