Trollstigen National Tourist Route

Located on Norway’s west coast,Trollstigen is perched within a dramatic pass between the deep fjords that characterize the region. This panoramic site can only be visited and constructed in summer, due to severe winter weather. Despite – or perhaps because of – the inaccessible nature of the site, the project entails designing an entire visitor environment ranging from a mountain lodge with restaurant and gallery to flood barriers, water cascades, bridges, and paths to outdoor furniture and pavilions and platforms meant for viewing the scenery. All of these elements are molded into the landscape so that the visitor’s experience of place seems even more intimate. The architectural intervention is respectfully delicate, and was conceived as a thin thread that guides visitors from one stunning overlook to another. The RRA project will enhance the experience of the Trollstigen plateau’s location and nature. Thoughtfulness regarding features and materials will underscore the site’s temper and character, and well-adapted, functional facilities will augment the visitor’s experience. The architecture is to be characterised by clear and precise transitions between planned zones and the natural landscape. Through the notion of water as a dynamic element – from snow, to running and then falling water- and rock as a static element, the project creates a series of prepositional relations that describe and magnify the unique spatiality of the site.

Reiulf Daniel Ramstad (Oslo 1962) 1985/91 - Dottore in Architettura, Graduate Architect Education:
IUAV - University of Venice, Faculty of Architecture 1984/85 - Faculty of Architecture, University of Genoa
Practice: 1995 - Private practice, Reiulf Ramstad Architects - RRA
1994 - Private practice, Steen, Ramstad and Bryn Architects
1985/93 - Individual projects in cooperation with other architects, Graduate Architect MNAL
Works:
2010 -  “Knarvik Church”, new church for the local municipality of Knarvik / 1st prize
2009 - Norwegian mountaineering Center for The Norwegian mountaineering Museums Foundation / 1 st prize
- Trollveggen Service-Center, New information and service-center
The Troll Wall / 1 stprize
- New Museum & Cultural center for the South Sámi (indigenous people of Norway) for Norwegian Public Construction and Property Management / shared 1 st prize
- New High North Centre Barents House for The Norwegian Barents Secretariat / 1 st prize
2008 - New Holmenkollen Metro Station for Oslo’s public transportation system LmtD/ 1st prize
- National Tourist Routes Roervikfjell Mountain View Platform.
Norwegian public roads administration/ 1st prize
- ISI - New Renovation / Environmental Recycle Plant. Municipality of Baerum / 1 st prize
- New TownHall including social and welfare administration Offices, Mun. of Tønsberg / 1 st prize