Article source: 3RW Arkitekter

When a big tree in the forest dies, an organic process that creates what we know as a clearing begins – open room in the otherwise dense forest. We want to develop the memorial on Utøya as such a clearing; forming a clear spot and highlight all the beautiful landscape qualities that are already in place and in contact with the surrounding environment.

Approach from pathway, Image Courtesy © Martin Slottemo Lyngstad

• Architects: 3RW Arkitekter
• Project: Memorial at Utøya
• Location: Utøya, Norway
• Photography: Martin Slottemo Lyngstad, Christian Mong, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Glen J. Read
• Client: AUF, Oslo
• Collaborators:
  • Ecologist: Christian E. Mong
  • Competition images: Fabian Schnuer Gohde
  • Construction site: Volunteer parents of the victim and former members of the youth labour party (AUF-veterans)
  • Craftsmanship wooden flooring: Øystein Kjerpeseth, Nature AS
  • Structural engineer: NODE rådgivende ingeniører AS
  • Landscape contractor: Anleggsgartner Finn Andersen
  • Building site management: Telemark Vestfold Entreprenør AS
  • Project management: Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Utøya AS
• Type: Competition, 1st prize – Commission
• Status: Completed on the 4th anniversary of the incident the 22nd July 2015
• Program: 114m2 of circular landscape intervention in a 12m diameter circle, including a suspended ring of 4m in
  diameter
• Period: 2015

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