At some point the age of combustion will be history. We will look at the relics of the industrial age as something alien.
The Tiefstack power plant, visible from the Elbe island of Kaltehofe, is to be decommissioned by 2030. Until then it will be supplying up to 100,000 households with district heating and electricity every day, producing around 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 annually. PARA anticipates the end of the power plant and accompanies the age of combustion to its grave: in the near future, a support structure on the grounds of the Stiftung Wasserkunst will house the power plant's chimney once it has been dismantled. The chimney, once a landmark of the industrial plant visible from afar, will be laid out in public as a monument.
The campaign "Rückbauwerk Tiefstack" is a starting signal, a feasibility study and a waiting shelter. Visitors are invited to experience the future dimensions of the monument on the site and to await the end of the fossil fuel era.
A display at the "Rückbauwerk" shows the remaining time until the planned shutdown, down to the second. Every day that visitors spend here saves energy, which shortens the time until the power plant is shut down by one exactly one second per person per day.
