{"id":206,"date":"2011-09-19T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/german-engineering-tempelhof-wasserpark\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:44:28","slug":"german-engineering-tempelhof-wasserpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/german-engineering-tempelhof-wasserpark\/","title":{"rendered":"German Engineering: Tempelhof Wasserpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"center caption\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/static\/berlin_tempelhof.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image: Johanna F. Barthmeier<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/dirt.asla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Society of Landscape Architects<\/a> announced the winners of the 2011 Student Awards, and a conceptual design for Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, caught our eye. The site&rsquo;s water management design is based on the folds of a paper airplane; stormwater and groundwater (Berlin lies close to the water table and gets a lot of rainfall) is moved, absorbed, filtered and collected through a zig-zag series of pools, plantings and contoured landforms.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, the space would be transformed into an urban water park with swimming areas for recreation and treatment pools for ecological education. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asla.org\/2011studentawards\/006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for more details on the plan by University of Pennsylvania graduate Johanna F. Barthmeier and a fascinating slideshow\u2014again, this is a design project rather than an actual plan, but it&rsquo;s interesting to see innovative ideas in stormwater management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the American Society of Landscape Architects announced the winners of the 2011 Student Awards, and a conceptual design for Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, caught our eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"custom_css":"","custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,95,519],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-green-infrastructure","tag-stormwater","tag-university-of-pennsylvania","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/german-engineering-tempelhof-wasserpark\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"German Engineering: Tempelhof Wasserpark","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/german-engineering-tempelhof-wasserpark\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/german-engineering-tempelhof-wasserpark\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Infrastructure","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["green infrastructure","stormwater","university of pennsylvania"],"dateCreated":"2011-09-19T14:30:00Z","datePublished":"2011-09-19T14:30:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-12T20:44:28Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"German Engineering: Tempelhof Wasserpark\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/german-engineering-tempelhof-wasserpark\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/german-engineering-tempelhof-wasserpark\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Infrastructure\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"green infrastructure\",\"stormwater\",\"university of pennsylvania\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-09-19T14:30:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-19T14:30:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-12T20:44:28Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/phila.gov\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}