Stadt im Regal put up a construction in front of the WK8P2 building at Merzdorfer Str. 14–18, Hoyerswerda Neustadt. It portrays the deconstruction as a construction project: “Green Space Coming Soon.”

Economic and social restructuring in the former East Germany has rendered entire neighborhoods and cities superfluous. A whole way of life created in the sixties, seventies and eighties has been called into question and dismantled piece by piece. After several slab buildings in Hoyerswerda’s Wohnkomplex 8 (Residential Complex 8) had already disappeared, Stadt im Regal became involved in the demolition of one of the complex’s Type P2 buildings, located at Merzdorfer Str. 14–18, Hoyerswerda Neustadt.

A Federal Cultural Foundation project about the deconstruction of modernity, Hoyerswerda Neustadt.

www.stadtimregal.de/wk8p2abbau
www.stadtimregal.de/superumbau-review

Site clearance and closeout, topsoil preparation, seeding, designation of playing fields and lawn areas, irrigation.

The deconstruction of the WK8P2 building was made public in the Lausitzer Rundschau newspaper. In an advertisement published daily, photos and text documented the gradual disappearance of the building and the creation of a green space.

Superconversion, demolition of WK8P2, a Federal Cultural Foundation project about the deconstruction of modernity, Hoyerswerda Neustadt

www.bundeskulturstiftung.com/superumbau