HØSE BRIDGE by Rintala Eggertsson Architects
13/08/2013.
[Suldal] Norway
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
The project tries reduce its footprint on the ground with a "box beam". Near the access has a viewpoint covered, and from interior using sheets stretch-metal of stainless steel, has a vertical and horizontal transparent conexion with the landscape. Again a good project by this Norwegian team.
Project Synopsis by Rintala Eggertsson Architects
The bridge is located just north of the town Sand in the municipality of Suldal on the west coast of Norway. It is the result of extensive design process which started in 2008 after a design workshop together with Czech architect Ivan Kroupa where the inhabitants of Sand were given the opportunity to make a referendum over some of our initial ideas.
The bridge connects the town to a vast wooden landscape which is used for recreation by the inhabitants of Sand. This new connection makes the area more accessible for the general public and allows people of all generations to use the area.
The idea behind the chosen proposal was to establish a horizontal reference line in the landscape, to emphasize the undulant and organic shapes in the bedrock. The bridge consists of two steel lattice beams in corten steel on each side of the walkway, with a system of vertical and diagonal members. The walls are clad with sheets of stainless steel stretch-metal and corten steel. On the south side of the river, after crossing the bridge from Sand, a small pavilion in concrete was made to accommodate for small picnics and pit-stops for passers-by.
An important issue from the very start of the design process was to capture the power of the river running underneath the bridge. This was developed into an enclosed acoustic space above the middle of the river with a view through a steel grate directly down to the river, which gives the visitor a direct connection with this untamed natural element.
CREDITS
Architect.- Rintala Eggertsson Architects.
Design team.- Dagur Eggertsson, Sami Rintala, Ivan Kroupa, Vibeke Jenssen, Kaori Watanabe and Ingrid Londono.
Structural engineering.- Dr. Techn. Kristoffer Apeland AS.
Project management.- Inge Hoftun, Kon-Sul AS.
General contractor.- Endre Kvæstad, Block Berge Bygg AS.
Subcontractor steel.- Gunnar Innvær, Stål og Fasade AS.
Client.- Lauritz Lauritzen Inge Vandvik and Alf Waage. Suldal Municipality.
Location.- Postvegen, Sand, 4230 Suldal, Norway.
Vibeke Jenssen borns 1964 is an architect with a long experience from housing and planning. She received her professional degree in 1993 from the Oslo School of Architecture, whereafter she started her collaboration with architect Dagur Eggertsson, as NOIS architects with a focus on small scale architectural public art.
In 2009, she joined Rintala Eggertsson Architects as a full time member of the team and from 2012 also as a partner.
Dagur Eggertsson was born in 1965.He is an architect with a professional background from a number of the most prominent offices in Oslo. After his professional degree from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1992, he started his collaboration with architect Vibeke Jenssen, as NOIS architects. In 1996 he finished a post-professional master’s degree at the Helsinki University of Technology, where he started experimentation with building full scale architectonic objects, under the supervision of Professor Juhani Pallasmaa.
Along with his professional practice, Eggertsson has taught architecture in Norway, Iceland and Sweden. He is currently a project examinator at the Oslo School of Architecture.
In 2007, Eggertsson started collaboration with architect Sami Rintala, which resulted in establishment of the office Rintala Eggertsson Architects. The office is based in Oslo and Bodø, Norway.
Sami Rintala was born in 1969.He is an architect and an artist, with a long merit list after finishing his architect studies in Helsinki Finland 1999. He established architect office Casagrande & Rintala 1998, which produced a series of acknowledged architectural installations around the world during the next five years until 2003. These works combine architecture with critical thinking of society, nature and the real tasks of an architect, all within a cross-over art field using space, light, materials and human body as tools of expression.
Rintala had his first wider recognition in 1999 with the project Landescape, three abandoned wooden barns were raised on 10 meter high.
In Venice Biennale 2000 Sixty Minute Man was realized; A ship sailed to Arsenal with a garden inside. The park was planted on sixty minutes of human waste from the city of Venice, becoming together with the old boat a three dimensional collage.
In 2008, Rintala started a new architect office with Icelandic architect Dagur Eggertsson, called Rintala Eggertsson Architects. The office is based in Oslo, South Norway and Bodø, North Norway.
Important part of Rintala’s work is teaching and lecturing in various art and architecture universities. Teaching takes place usually in form of workshops where the students often are challenged to participate the shaping of human environment on a realistic 1:1 situation.