Learning, working, exchanging ideas – in a district with a high quality of stay: Three renowned architecture and planning offices have developed creative and trend-setting concepts for the future use and design of the northern airport site. This marks the successful conclusion of an ideas competition launched by the airport company in August for the SXF 2.0 district at the former Terminal 5 of the BER. The airport company, which owns the land, was able to win COBE Berlin, FABRICations and MLA+ for this competition. All three proposals build on the history of the airport site and include the former Terminal 5 of the BER, for example, as a research-related event location or space for cultural encounters. The focus of the work is clearly on the broadest possible mix of uses for the commercial area, on conferences and meeting opportunities, prototyping and urban production, supplemented by temporary living and combined with art and culture. The future district is clearly geared towards ecology and sustainability. It offers flexible spaces for working and experimenting as well as green outdoor spaces with extensive offers for relaxation, meeting and exchange. All three offices also consider it important that the area is integrated into the community of Schönefeld in terms of both urban development and landscape. "I would like to thank the offices involved for their commitment and their inspiring ideas. All three designs have identified exciting possible uses for this aviation site with its proximity to the airfield. We see the concepts presented as very interesting, sustainable approaches for the further development of the area, which is still largely unused today," says Aletta von Massenbach, Chairwoman of the Management Board of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH.