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An angled concrete block at the entrance to the site contains waterside restaurant and gallery, while Corten steel pavilions are set in the ground alongside.

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From here a footpath crosses the mountain river and leads to the lookout points, which are made of concrete, steel and glass.

The facility, which opened last month, is one of five architectural projects along the Geiranger-Trollstigen tourist route, a 66-mile scenic road across the Trollstigen Mountain Plateau in western Norway.

Trollstigen - or "troll's ladder" - is regarded as one of Norway's most spectacularly beautiful areas and the tourist route across it is one of the country's most popular attractions.

At the foot of the wall is a jagged glass restaurant, which Reiulf Ramstad Architects completed last summer.

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See also our recent story about the architects' beachside walkway on the Havøysund trail, which is another of the 18 national tourist routes in Norway.

Stops on some of the other tourist routes that we've written about include public toilets in a rusty steel cabin and a memorial commemorating suspected witches.

See all our stories about the Norwegian National Tourist Routes »

Photography is by the architects, apart from where otherwise stated.

Here's some text from Reiulf Ramstad Architects:

Trollstigen National Tourist Route Project

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.

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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.

Location: Romsdalen - Geiranger Fjord, Norway
Program: National tourist routes project
Client: The Norwegian public roads administration
Commision type: Invited Competition 1st prize in cooperation with Multiconsult 13.3 landscaping (2004)

Architects: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway (RRA)
Reiulf Ramstad, Christian Skram Fuglset, Espen Surnevik, Anja Strandskogen, Nok Nimakorn,
Atle Leira, (Christian Dahle, Lasse Halvorsen, Helge Lunder, Karen Selmer, Tia Ginard Adover)

Civil Engineer: Structural Engineer: Dr Techn. Kristoffer Apeland AS, Oslo Norway
Design year: 2004-2011
Construction year: 2005-2012/ Official Opening 2012

Building area: 800 m2 (Mountain Lodge with restaurant and gallery), 950 m2 (Flood Barrier House)
Site: Building Site 600,000 m2
Time to build: 6 years
Type of construction: Corten steel and poured-in-place concrete

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Benches wrap around the curved walls, while the floor slopes down gradually to allow easy access to the water for wheelchair users as well as those on foot.

Circular openings of different sizes pierce the concrete walls.

Last year Reiulf Ramstad Architects completed a glass restaurant with jagged edges - see it here.

The Havøysund Tourist Route is one of 18 national tourist routes in Norway. See a couple of other stories about the routes here »

Here's some explanation from Reiulf Ramstad Architects:

Havøysund Tourist Route Project

The objective is quite simply to single out and magnify the experience of walking from the roadside down to the seaside at this very special place.

Therefore a chief concern was to slow down this movement and make the path itself a means of refocusing the experiential mode: a measured, restrained approach that creates awareness.

The primary functional concern was universal accessibility. Instead of opting for a dual solution with staircase and ramp, we came up with the notion of making the ramp the common entryway and develop it into the integral character of the project.

Because of the inclination of the site, and in order to create the reductive motion, the ramp had to be very long.

The winding river of the path prolongs the approach and in so doing opens up new perspectives and experiences for the visitor.

Located in the extreme north of Norway, in a landscape almost lunar in its barren and inhospitable beauty, the facility should ideally be completely self-sustainable in terms of power input and waste output.

The general notion was to create a human detail in the vastness of the landscape that is as timeless as the landscape itself and that brings attention to the relationship between the duration of experiences and the hugeness of the spatial circumstance.

Location: Havøysund, Finnmark Norway

Program: Development and Design National Touristroutes Havøysund

Client: Norwegian public roads administration

Architect: Reiulf Ramstad Architects: Reiulf Ramstad, Anja Strandskogen, Kanog Anong Nimakorn, (Kathrine Næss)

Commision type: Direct Commission (2007),

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The jagged glass edges of this restaurant by Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Architects point up towards a sheer cliff face.

Named the Troll Wall Restaurant, the building is located at the foot of the tallest vertical rock face in Europe, in Norway’s Romsdal Valley.

Full-height glazing gives diners a view of the landscape, behind a criss-crossing pattern of structural beams.

Charred timber clads the elevations at the rear of the building, where additional rooms provide a local service and information centre.

Reiulf Ramstad Architects also completed a timber-clad nursery in Oslo this year - see our earlier story here.

Photography is by the architects.

Here's some more text from Reiulf Ramstad Architects:

Trollwall Restaurant

It’s a new cursor at the foot of the Troll Wall; The architecture of the new visitors`center next to E139 is an outcome of the sites` close connection to the impressive mountain wall, Europe's tallest vertical, overhanging rock face in The Romsdal Valley.

The Romsdal valley has some of the tallest, sheerest cliffs in Europe and is a popular place for BASE jumping including "birdmen" jumping off cliffs in Wingsuits!

This location allows for an exciting setting for the new service- and information center.

RRAs proposal is carefully planned in relation to the Troll Wall.

At the same time it is building a character and identity which in itself will be an attraction in the region.

The building has a simple, though flexible plan, with a characteristic roof that has its character from the majestetic surrounding landscape.

Geometry of the roof is also generated from the view to the mountains from the restaurant inside the building.

These simple ways of design gives the building its character and identity that makes the Service center an eye-catcher and an architectural attraction in the region.

Reiulf Ramstad Architects: Reiulf Ramstad, Sunniva Neuenkirchen Rosenberg and Espen Surnevik
Location: Trollveggen, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Program: New restaurant and service building
Client: Private

Size: 700m2
Commission type: 1st price, Invited competition (2009)

Status: Under construction
Year: Completed summer 2011

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Norwegian architects RRA have completed this wood-clad nursery school in Oslo, Norway.

Called Fagerborg Kindergarten, the project features four classrooms that can either be combined or operate separately.

One end of the building is undercut and cantilevers out to shelter the entrances below.

The interior is clad in wood with colourful staircases leading to administrative areas on the upper floors.

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The information that follows is from the architects:

RRA has been involved in designing a new kindergarten for Fagerborg Congregation in central Oslo. The kindergarten offers 2 units for children between 1-3 years old and 2 units for children between 3-6 years old.

Gross building area is around 1000m2.

There are many cultural heritage guidelines to be considered in the project site. The area is characterised by residential buildings from 1900-1950. As a requirement from the local authority, the kindergarten is to have a contemporary expression.

With its location in the middle of a small city park, the kindergarten has an outdoor area that is protected like an enclosed garden.

The planning solution enables the 4 kindergarten units to function both independently and together as required. All units share a common area and a kitchen in the heart of the building. Administration is placed on the upper floor separate from children areas.

FAGERBORG KINDERGARDEN
Location: Fagerborg, Oslo
Program: Kindergarden
Client: Fagerborg Congregation
Size: 1000 m2
Commission type: Direct commission (2003)
Status: Built

See also:

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Tellus Nursery School by Tham & Videgård	Kindergarten Sighartstein by Kadawittfeldarchitektur	Kindergarten in Granada by Solinas + Verd Arquitectos

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