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Potentials and polarities on charged ground
- Reprogramming the defunct nuclear power plant at Barsebäck.

This is a project of an eel farm. It is also an investigation of a series of buildings.

Furthermore it is a landscape reader and site converter of former industrial

land of urban proportions.

I have embraced multiplicity in favor of one uniform idea.

This project is not a series of drawings prepared for construction, nor a vision

according to the local municipality, or what anyone expects of the facility today.

It is a selective and personal study with a speculative design outcome.

I have been working with the negative connotations around certain buildings.

Neither rejecting nor accepting these presumptions, I saw spatial qualities in

the actual buildings, the site and the land around. Thus there was a potential to

revitalize.

 It started with a bike ride through the agricultural fields at Bjärred (southern Sweden). What

stroke me were two distant, crude colossi, almost religiously situated in one of

Öresund’s prime locations.

The structures were impossible to reach, but visible from afar.

Of course I knew they were the former nuclear power plant at Barsebäck,

closed since 2005, after a thirty year long political debate, not the least from

the Danish side.

Not producing energy, still producing cultural connotations and evoking a great

portion of fear, as I soon discovered.

The facility is sometimes mentioned in the family of Chernobyl’s and Fukoshima’s,

the plant has actually not resulted in any direct death or proved injury.

For the several hundred employees and hundreds of thousands of households, it

has however been an efficient producer of energy.

From a section through the facility, I came up with the alliteration mantra sea-site-soil-society. This became my programmatic motor.

I saw a type of production that could benefit from the vicinity to the regional assets.

Research for the robust spaces and technical infrastructure.

I did not see the reason to plant e.g. another art museum here.

This is a place for high tech in a rural environment. This was

another interesting duality of course.