Transjurane, Switzerland

The A16 motorway cuts through the Jura Mountains in northwestern Switzerland, connecting the Jura arc to the Swiss Plateau via a sequence of tunnels. Architectural photography along the Transjurane A16 route: tunnel portals and ventilation structures, concrete forms set into steep terrain, built for function and little else. What draws attention here is the architecture you pass through without stopping.

Portals and ventilation structures are both raw concrete, shaped by what they have to withstand and what they have to move: air, traffic, load. In this Transjurane A16 architectural photography, made from a standstill, they read as sculpture.

Part of our Reportage & Landscape work.