The World is Not Fair: Architects and Artists Unveil 15 Recycled Pavilions at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport

The World is Not Fair -- <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://www.raumlabor.net/?p=5708" target="_blank">Die Grosse Weltausstellung 2012</a> -- is a large-scale event that transforms the grounds of Berlin's <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://inhabitat.com/a-community-garden-blooms-at-berlins-abandoned-tempelhof-airport/" target="_blank">Tempelhof Airport</a> into an architectural wonderland with 15 recycled pavilions created by architects and artists from all around the world. Architecture firm <a href="http://www.raumlabor.net/">Raumlabor Berlin</a> worked together with local theater company <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/geschichte.html?HAU=1" target="_blank">HAU</a> on the project, which created new places to watch performances, listen to music, participate in conferences, eat al fresco and discuss the future of the world.

Re-appropriating an existing warehouse structure at the 'abandoned' Tempelhof Airport, theater director <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiki_Okada" target="_blank">Toshiki Okada</a> created a shelter for performances that evokes the wrecked reactor units in <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/fukushima/">Fukushima</a>.

Using the airport's red and white striped color code, Dutch artist <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Rooij" target="_blank">Willem de Rooij</a> created a sound installation shelter featuring the sounds of Egyptian camels.

Documentarian <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/pur/kro/deindex.htm" target="_blank">Hans-Werner Krösinger</a> transformed an old existing antenna building to portray the negative use of the military and the history of forced labor of the former <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://inhabitat.com/the-best-green-designs-at-berlins-2012-dmy-design-fair/" target="_blank">Tempelhof</a> airport.

Featuring wooden amplifiers, plenty of recycled materials, and a mobile solar kitchen, the <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://www.raumexperimente.net/" target="_blank">Institute fur Raumexperimente</a> -- by Prof. Olafur Eliasson -- recycled an existing building for "unfair poetry, sounds and discussions" that involve all the senses. 

<a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://www.ericgingrich.com/" target="_blank">Eric Gingrich</a> used his 'under-construction' pavilion to portray different <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_fair" target="_blank">World Fairs</a> (which have taken place for over 160 years), inviting visitors to imagine how future cities could be. 

Theater collective <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://andcompany.com/" target="_blank">AndCompany</a> created the most colorful <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://inhabitat.com/raumlabors-officina-roma-is-a-villa-built-entirely-from-trash-by-kids/" target="_blank">pavilion</a>, which is entirely made from recycled wood and serves as a stage for performances within an inside-out shelter.

Local curator <a title="The World is Not Fair Re-appropriates Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Through Experiential Architecture Pavilions " href="http://www.studiolukasfeireiss.com/" target="_blank">Lukas Feireiss</a> created Institut Fur Imaginary Inseln, a laboratory for local children and pupils to build ideas from<a href="http://inhabitat.com/recycled-gecekondu-shelter-at-berlins-tempelhof-airport-teaches-kids-about-green-design/" target="_blank"> recycled materials</a>.

Feireiss also re-appropriated the old airport's underground bunker for movie projections.

Lebanese artist and director Rabih Mroue built a lean, 145-foot-long shelter that stretches out throughout Tempelhof's abandoned fields.

It consist of a long corridor that leads visitors to experience 72 frames of 'The Syrian protesters recording their own deaths'.

Finally, the Festivalzentrum is made from recycled steel beams and repurposed silos. It features a bar on one side and a cocoon-like space for eating and thinking about the future - because, like <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Tempelhof_Airport" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Tempelhof_Airport" target="_blank">Tempelhof Airport</a>, it is still open for discussion and it can take any shape we want.