Saurerwerk becomes a new district (Swiss Stories 2015, by Pit Brunner) - Swiss Press Award

Hochparterre / Themenheft März 2014, Verlag Hochparterre AG, Zürich

Pit Brunner

1403_WerkZwei_Arbon / Saurer to become a new district / Special issue March 2014, Verlag Hochparterre AG, Zurich The former, largely abandoned Sulzer site WerkZwei in Arbon is to be developed into a new district. The images in this series were created for the March 2014 special issue of Hochparterre, which highlights the planned transformation process. It was a hazy day, with the rolling fog occasionally broken by a few rays of sunshine. The vast, derelict area—the immense expanse—condenses in places into a hint of the urban, losing itself in the obscurity, the vague, marked by crumbling old buildings and the scars of demolition. The foggy, murky atmosphere seemed to me the perfect mood for approaching this area in a "Sleeping Beauty" state, whose history is lost in the past and whose future may lie in the equally unclear distance. The images in the series depict—like stills from a film—the changing spatial density of the area: its location, its inner emptiness, transitions, (still) existing buildings, suggested activities, boundaries.