Article source: Saunders Architecture

This sculptural installation was designed for the Sti For Øye sculpture park in Stokke, set amongst the Vestfold oak forest to the south of Oslo. Working alongside landscape architect and professor Rainer Stange in order to create the infrastructure for a woodland walk past a series of artists’ installations, Saunders proposed a series of steel and wooden walkways set at the highest point of the site, looking east towards Slottsfjellet, or castle rock. The design plays with the idea of an artificially facilitated foray up above the forest floor, an elevated viewpoint that would otherwise be unavailable to the visitor.

Forest Stair

• Architects: Saunders Architecture
• Project: Forest Stair
• Location: Stokke, Norway
• Client: Stokke Municipality and Sti For Øye Sculptural Park
• Team architects: Todd Saunders, Attila Béres, Ken Beheim-Schwarzbach, general contractor and carpenter, Timber AS, Anders Frøstrup
• Steel consultants and builders: Jotne Mekaniske Verksteder AS, Terje Johannessen, Christian Larsson, Helge Thorsen
• Landscape architects: Rainer Stange, Dronninga Landskap
• Size: 30 m2; 11 m length, 1.2 to 3.5 m width, 4.5 m height
• Status: Finished January 2012
• Software used: ArchiCAD

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