The Clearing - Memorial at Utøya / 3RW Arkitekter

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  • Category: Memorial Center
  • 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
  • Surveyors: Fossum AS
  • Steel Work Suspended Ring: Trosterud AS
  • Steel Production Landscape Ring: Vestre AS
  • Steel Work On Site Landscape Ring: Skar Industriservice AS
  • Building Site Management: Telemark Vestfold Entreprenør AS
  • Advisor Butterflies: Dr. Joseph Chipperfield
  • City: Dønna
  • Country: Norway
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The Clearing - Memorial at Utøya / 3RW Arkitekter - Forest, Garden
© Martin Slottemo Lyngstad

Text description provided by the architects. 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. Our goal is to shape the open space between the big pine trees as a major unifying circle. The circle is set in the landscape with a slightly lower slope than the current terrain, but still allowing the sloping down towards the water and preserves an amphitheater / bowl shape. When the path from the central building areas at Utøya comes in to the memorial, we lower the terrain gently along the circle, thus creating a seating edge where you approach the circle.

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Cite: "The Clearing - Memorial at Utøya / 3RW Arkitekter" 23 Jul 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/770709/the-clearing-memorial-at-utoya-3rw-arkitekter> ISSN 0719-8884

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