Trollstigen National Tourist Route Project : Information

28 Jan 2010 - News Update In 2009 Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter finished most of the outlook plateau, the outlook point, most of the concrete works at the mountain lodge, walk paths, railings, water mirrors. 2010 should be the final year for building, when the construction site opens again after the Winter. Outlook Plateau: Mountain Lodge ; Pedestrian bridge with Mountain Lodge Embankment building (Flood barrier building): Pedestrian bridge ; walk path images Outlookplateau construction site: photo : Iver Gjelstenli, Romsdals Budstikke Project Name: Trollstigen National Tourist Route Project Client: The Norwegian Public Roads Administration Expected Completion: 2010 (Including the new Mountain Lodge with Restaurant and Flood Barrier House) Flood barrier building: Context photos of the existing site: National Tourist Route Trollstigen - Building Information location: Romsdalen - Geiranger Fjord, Norway program: National tourist routes project client: Norwegian public roads administration Commision type: Invited Competition 1st prize in cooperation with Multiconsult 13.3 landscaping (2004) status: Under construction / to be fully completed in 2010 Architect: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway (RRA) Location: Romsdalen - Geiranger Fjord, Norway Project team: Reiulf D Ramstad, Christian Fuglset, Anja Strandskogen, Christian Dahle, Nok Nimakorn (all Architects MNAL) Client: Norwegian public roads administration Civil Engineer: Structural Engineer: Dr Techn. Kristoffer Apeland AS, Oslo Norway Design year: 2004-10 Construction year: 2005-10 / Official Opening 2011 Photo Credits: Outlookplateau construction site - Iver Gjelstenli, Romsdals Budstikke Rest of the images and illustrations - Reiulf Ramstad Architects (RRA) and MIR illustrated Outlookplateau: Outlookpoint: Located on Norway's west coast, Trollstigen is perched within a dramatic pass between the deep fjords that characterize the region. This panoramic site can only be visited and constructed in summer, due to severe winter weather. Despite-or perhaps because of-the inaccessible nature of the site, the project entails designing an entire visitor environment ranging from a mountain lodge with restaurant and gallery to flood barriers, water cascades, bridges, and paths to outdoor furniture and pavilions and platforms meant for viewing the scenery. All of these elements are molded into the landscape so that the visitor's experience of place seems even more intimate. The architectural intervention is respectfully delicate, and was conceived as a thin thread that guides visitors from one stunning overlook to another. Outlookpoint: The RRA project will enhance the experience of the Trollstigen plateau's location and nature. Thoughtfulness regarding features and materials will underscore the site's temper and character, and well-adapted, functional facilities will augment the visitor's experience. The architecture is to be characterised by clear and precise transitions between planned zones and the natural landscape. Through the notion of water as a dynamic element -from snow, to running and then falling water- and rock as a static element, the project creates a series of prepositional relations that describe and magnify the unique spatiality of the site. Flood barrier building: Location: Trollstigen - Møre and Romsdal, Norway Building area: 800 m2 (Mountain Lodge with restaurant and gallery) To be completed in 2010 950 m2 (Flood Barrier House) To be completed in 2009 Site: Building Site 600,000 m2 Time to build: 5-6 years Type of construction: Cor-ten steel and poured-in-place concrete Mountainlodge ; Pedestrian bridge The Project "Trollstigen - National Tourist Route" is on display as part of the travelling exhibition "Detour: Architecture and Design along 18 tourist Routes in Norway" (Now in Washington. U.S) Gudbrandsjuvet Viewingplatform, Norway Architects: JSA image : Jensen & Skodvin Architects