The nuclear power plant in Gösgen started operating in 1979. Yearly it provides 8 billion kWh, which corresponds to about 15 percent of Switzerland’s electricity demand. According to the Energiestrategie 2050, the reactor in a Swiss power plant can remain active as long as it is safe. The expected lifetime of the reactor however, is around 50- 60 years which leads to the assumption that the power plant in Gösgen will be shut down in 2039. What will happen to the site after that? What happens to the nuclear waste which will emit radiation and heat for another 100’000 years? This project talks about the end of a landscape and the beginning of a new one.

The main condition: The nuclear waste remains on site forever-providing heat and radiation as a source of excess energy for the new landscape that transforms over time on the remains of the old. By setting new conditions on the piece of land, a new environment is taking shape.