Article source: CEBRA

The Jøssing Fjord Center is a combined museum for mining and geology. If the outside exhibition areas are also taken into consideration, the area is really a small magma park. The museum building is set just outside Jøssing in beautiful natural surroundings, next to the former mines and the power station that produced electricity for the mining activities. The basic structure – a four-armed star plan – is cast in concrete around an intermediate massive core built from bales of straw.

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• Architects: CEBRA
• Project: Jøssing Fjord Center
• Location: Jøssing Fjord, Norway
• Commission: Public
• Type: Competition
• Category: Culture
• Client: Dalane Municipality
• Year: 2010
• Purpose: Mining museum
• Size: 16.146 ft2 / 1500 m2
• Prize: Honorable mention
• Service: Architectural services

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