Article source: Imago

“Våghalsen”

The idea of the project is to link the landscape to the new building and the exbuilding to the entire scenario of Jøssingfjorden; it’s valleys and context, both visual, historical and technological. The architecture of the proposal will express the power and intentions that people have had for generations. It will make use of the most developed technologies and formal principles as they did according to their time. The proposal connects the two mountains (2 dominant resources) of the valleys and will give the museum and the geopark a new stronger character with a program that fulfills the requirements of function, management and maintenance. It is changing technologically and economically feasible. The proposal meets the requirements and the terms as described in the competition documentation according to program, space /areas and possesses a certain capacity of exception.

View from north-east

• Architects: Imago-Atelier de Arquitectura e Engenharia
• Project: Jøssingfjord Competition Proposal
• Location:Jøssingfjord Competition Proposal
• Landscape Architect: Torben Schønherr
• Engineer: José Joaquim Carvalho
• Architect, Engineer: André de Moura Leitão Cerejeira Fontes
• Architect, Engineer: António Jorge de Moura Leitão Cerejeira Fontes
• Art, concept : Asbørn Andresen
• Software used: Autodesk Revit

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