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Lanterna - Urnes World Heritage Center
Master plan / 1-2000
Ornes - beyond times The same way as the mountains, the riverbed and the native upland surrounding Ornes has been formed by breaking glaciers and melting vast ice sheets, so too has mankind and landscape asjusted each their way of life through millennia. The “Human/Nature” adaptability have created a distinctive synergy brought to form through wood and stone structures. Combined with the scent of the native upland, the sound of the natures pace and the vivid plant growth these conditions has been a prime source of curiosity in the development of this building project. We call it Lanterna.
Local landscape / Towards Solvorn
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Lanterna is inscribed in a landscape of naturepaths and accesses over fields, stone dikes and plantations. Ornes landscape and settlement embraces the darkness that characterizes most months of the year and with the mountains ‘bigger than human’-greatness the landscape reminds us that we are but part of an environment much older than mankind.
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As such the space between Urnes Church and the surrounding landscape points towards a temporal gaze where nature and culture is one but the same the thing.
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Natural conditions / Icicles and cliff formation
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Ornes Cultural Heritage Route The project proposes a new master plan for Ornes aiming to solve to excisting problems: 1) To ease the massive pressure and attention oriented towards Urnes Church and 2) To invite Ornes visitors to learn about and engage with the many other cultural qualities in and nearby the town. 4.
The master plan is created for the area to cater for the lived life of people across different generations. The plan provides unique opportunities to create coherence between a large number of visitors, sales of local products and flexible production facilities which with the new visiting center will give the citizen new action opportunities. Lanterna plays a key role connecting the towns different attractions and as such becomes a vital player facilitating information and guiding to Ornes cultural heritage and landscape. Part of the proposal is a walking path connecting multiple places. The route includes: 1. New harbour bath 2. Viking ship grave 3. Singns of cultural heritage 4. The Kings grave 5. Signs of cultural heritage 6. Urnes Stave Church 7. Bell tower mount x. Possible new descoveries.
Lanterna View / From opposite coastline
Local atmosphere / Ornes habour
Natural local conditions / Ice, snow and water
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Plan - Ground floor / 1-200
Weaving spaces and light Lanterna seeks to include the everyday life of Ornes citizens and the surrounding areas permanent residents in its spatial and programmatic conjunctions.
Colour, blue / Urnes Church.
Lanterna outlines the exhibition at ground level as a central part in the building where knowledge about local craftmanship and norwegian culture is presented as a programmatic weaving between the UNESCO World Heritage Exhibition and real everyday work of local craftsmen from Ornes and its surroundings. Using natural light and the reflection from the river bed the building’s structural design and spatial composition invitevisitors to join the local activities. The exhibition thus contains both UNESCO’s Norway’s World Heritage Site and a more practical and flexible production oriented exhibition program. An open and highly adaptable plan where different types of installations and exhibitions can be considered and where living materials and wood carvings can be felt with both body and mind. A changeable and living space that leaves the visitor with a deep curiosity and knowledge of the site-specific cultural heritage and the surrounding movement through faith and the hand’s work with wood.
From this part of the building there is a fully 180-degree view of the Lutra and Sogne River. The landscape and the natural light at these latitudes, together with the location of the premises, constitute the exhibition space itself. As we include citizen-oriented production opportunities, we humbly propose to expand the specified facilities with additionally 200-300m2. We thereby create a fusion of locally represented crafts with citizens who are practice-oriented executive in the visitor center itself. A bridge between current production and cultural formation journey in Nordic construction methods.
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The programmatic and spatial composition supports these ideas by weaving building and nature, and production and exhibition together. In this part of the building residents can to share experiences together, create social events at different scales that can strengthen the unity across Ornes. At core is traditional craftsmanship and local production, including processing fruit into juices and jams, fermenting berries, apple press and mustard and bread art.
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Sections / Depiction of viking ship typologies between 10001100 i.e.
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Apple trees / Ornes
Apple Cider / Urnes Gård
Ground floor: 696,1m2 1 - reception: 21,4m2 2 - toilets: 6,3m2 3 - staff room: 15,2m2 4 - office: 6m2 5 - lobby: 70,5m2 6 - museum shop and local goods shop: 41,8m2 7 - wardrope: 7,1m2 8 - storage: 5,5m2 9 - exhibiton space ground floor: 280m2 10 - flexible cinema space: 32m2 11 - Local production facilities: 115m2 12 - kids area: 37m2 13 - storage A: 6,3m2 14 - storage B: 11m2 15 - storage C: 6m2 16 - storage D / toilet: 12m2 17 - storage E: 4m2 18 - storage F: 12m2 19 - storage G: 7m2 20 - terrace
Roof top 46.91
Road 47.10
Roof top terrace 45.00 Roof top 43.91
View / Interior from exhibition space - ground floor Roof top 41.50
Community workspace 42.05
Roof top 40.50
Cafe 39.55
Urnes Exhibition 39.17 Reception 37.65
Ramp/Entrance 37.65
Ramp/Entrance 34.80
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Exhibition / World Heritage 36.45
Terrace 39.55 Apple plantagen 37.15 Exhibiton / Production 35.15
Site 33.88
Lanterna Section dd / 1-200
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Plan - Second floor / 1-200
Carving and movements The landscape around Urnes Church is characterized by being broken naturally by smaller water streams, which together with photosynthesis and good soil conditions are the basis for all growth in Ornes. We imagine that the location and creation of Ornes town and Urnes Church are inextricably linked with sailing, natural supply routes and the exchange of local materials from local areas and up through the main rivers. We therefore consider Urnes Church as an expression of will and local entrepreneurship and a well-developed ability to create buildings that could accommodate communities and contribute to cohesion in Ornes city.
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Urnes Church Exhibition therefore takes its origin in the building, where you as a visitor walk across a ramp lifted up above two water streams running under the building. You sense the strength of the mountain and the power of the running meltwater as you approach the exhibition. The ramp is created of pure pine, with reference to the frames of a boat, and thus draws on the local heritage.
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The exhibition takes the viewer on a sensory experience, where solid natural materials are unfolded with respect and tenderness towards the protected exhibited objects. The ornamentation is a clue in the exhibition and the buildings spatial movements.
Building Culture Lanterna finds inspiration in Ornes local building culture. Small round windows bring glimses of light to specific areas in the indoor space. At the same time the exterior of the building is characterized by a technonical principles such as stacking, bearing, foating and cladding. Lanterna draws on a known colour pallette supporting a strong relationship to the surrounding landscape.
Small round windows / Urnes Stave Church
Wood carvings, facade ornamentation / Urnes Stave Church
Diagram - movements / Building proposal
Wood carvings, ornamentation / Urnes Stave Church
Local building techniques / Ornes
Three dimensional ornamentaion / Urnes stace Church
Roof top 46.91 Roof top terrace 45.00 Roof top 43.65
Urnes Exhibition 39.17 Site 36.35
Exhibition / World Heritage 36.45
View diagram / Interior exhibtion space - first floor
Lanterna Cross section bb / 1-200
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Plan - Second floor / 1-200
Community Arriving to Lanterna from Urnes Church, you are greated by a big warm opening. With direct access from the street both visitors and locals have access to the café from where you can gaze over the fjord towards the mountains. On top of the cafés kitchen you’ll find a workspace for the local community.
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Lanternas installations and objects are highlighted by means of diversity in the wood rings and tarring of the wood. Pine as a load-bearing element and plinth as well as Norwegian spruce and ore pine as an adaptation material. Only separated by glass which has undergone some nuanced heating processes so that the glass in showcases up to the bedrock under the building slowly dissolves and transforms into a blanket of ice.
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Second floor: 45m2 1 - Community workspace: 45m2
Material inspiration View / The building kindly opens up from the apple plantation letting light and sight in through the cafe, community workspace, terrasse and production facilities.
Roof top 46.91 Roof top 43.92 Community workspace 42.05
Road 42.42
Norwegian pine / Ornes Baatbyggeri
Glass / Ice waterfall
Wood shingles / Fortun Stave Church, app. 1150.
Granite / Building foundation, Ornes
Cafe 39.55 Site 37.60 Exhibiton / Production 35.15
Lanterna Cross section cc / 1-200
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Lanterna - Urnes World Heritage Center
Plan - Roof / 1-500
Common ground Part of the proposal tries to deal with the massive pressure from trafic by suggesting a new stone paving in a zone between the parking lot, the harbour, the church and the kings grave. The paving indicates a slow pace primarily for walkers. At the same time it combines and connects places of cultural value to the city.
Paving pattern
The landscape around Urnes Church is characterized by being broken naturally by smaller water streams, which together with photosynthesis and good soil conditions are the basis for all growth in Ornes. We imagine that the location and creation of Ornes town and Urnes Church are inextricably linked with sailing, natural supply routes and the exchange of local materials from local areas and up through the main rivers. We therefore consider Urnes Church as an expression of will and local entrepreneurship and a well-developed ability to create buildings that could accommodate communities and contribute to cohesion in Ornes city.
Local landscape / Stacking
Local building principle / Barn ramp
Shingles roof
Pine wood structure
Entrence café / workspace Community workspace Bar/Kitchen Café Production / technical facilities Exhibition Exhibition Reception
Ticket/Shop
Lobby Printing
Lobby Museum Shop Staff room
Storage
Entrence Museum
Weaving Wood Craft
View / Entrence
Roof top 46.91 Roof top terrace 45.00 Roof top 42.96
Reception 37.65
Exhibition / World Heritage 36.45 Site 34.75
Total M2 - 998,6m2 - Ground floor: 696,1m2 - First floor: 257,5m2 - Second fllor: 45m2
Lanterna Cross section aa / 1-200
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