The site of the New Omelas is situated in Tempelhof Field, at the intersection of Berlin’s three greatest utopian projects. It presents a proposal for a heterotopian town, with the layout emerging from a combination of earlier utopian projects and text from Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. The project challenges the notion of space ownership, suggesting that the right to space can only be expressed through occupation.

As time passes, the town, constructed from straw bales, gradually decomposes and enriches the former airport’s brown site, creating the groundwork for a future post-human era and site rebirth. The timeline for this decomposition is determined by translating fragments from the book into a series of spaces, where the programmatic function derives from the stage of decomposition of the structure, everchanging as the building merges with the ground. A farmer’s market in the settlement’s centre serves as the experimental core, becoming a material library for the constantly evolving community of the New Omelas, offering a fresh perspective on urban living in Berlin. This visionary undertaking stands as the city’s final heterotopian project.