We’re happy to share the news of another spring win! The project in question was made in collaboration with MDH Architects from Oslo, and is located in the beautiful Lofoten, in the village of Evenes in Norway. The proposal takes a sensitive approach to its surroundings and takes the best advantages of the climate. Following the topography on site and re-using the existing buildings, the project’s form and building volumes define different types of outdoor spaces that connect to the indoors, creating a flexible movement from inside to outside.

A sunny and sheltered school yard faces South, with different zones for play, activities, staying, different types of arrangements and festivities. The new school, with its angled shape, shelters the inner courtyard from the winter winds and helps to form an agreeable micro-climate to the South-facing yard between the school and the multi-use hall. The schoolyard’s heart, “Festplassen”, a landscaped stair and partly covered amphitheatre function as a meeting place when the weather allows it.