Heike Hanada, Uwe Schroder. Rome Berlin Rome

2070: Architecture has turned its back on the surrounding countryside. The city is again the subject of void and solid. Monumental buildings enter the city from its periphery. They are virtually waiting on the sidelines, waiting to take the urban stage. From the edges, the unity of the city is defined. Island and archipelago-like dense forests crisscross its area. They are like sunlit openings of the forest. As voids, they are counterworlds to the solids of the city; with them, the horti conclusi reemerge in the city of the 21st century. They form internal peripheries that interrupt the urban continuum of time, memory, and recollection. Like the Tiergarten in Berlin or the Giardino Villa Borghese, those voids grant nature its own space in the city. In a romantic sense, they become places of phantasmagoria and vagabond memory, all that is not fitting for man himself.