Sami Cultural Center
Inari, Finland
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Sami Cultural Center
Boat Route to Sacred Islands
Inari, Finland Indigenous Education Environment
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Home of the gods and the ancient deadesjarventie
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Home of the gods and the ancient dead
Saivo
The world humans experience
Visible
“Spirit of Life” Connected to the Body
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“Free Spirit”
Invisible
Capable of Leaving the Body
Skeleton or Breath
Short or Extended Periods
When Functioning the Person is still Alive
Home of the gods and the ancient dead
Saivo
Jabmeaibmu Dead recieved new Bodies
Invisible
Jabmeaibmu Dead recieved new Bodies
Rohttuaibmu
Earthly Gods and animistic spirits
Spirits of animals, natural features, and the controllable world
Allows Shaman (Noaide) to leave the real world
The world humans experience
Visible
Enarevagen
Earthly Gods and animistic spirits
Afterlife for those who followed rules of natural order
Spirits of animals, natural features, and the controllable world
Rohttuaibmu
The world humans experience
Visible After a time body was moved to Saivo
Afterlife for those who did not live their lives by the natural order
Invisible
Earthly Gods and animistic spirits
Spirits of animals, natural features, and the controllable world
Body eternally stuck in Rohttuaibmu
Jabmeaibmu Dead recieved new Bodies
Rohttuaibmu
Afterlife for those who followed rules of natural order
After a time body was moved to Saivo
Afterlife for those who did not live their lives by the natural order
Body eternally stuck in Rohttuaibmu
Afterlife for those who followed rules of natural order
After a time body was moved to Saivo
Afterlife for those who did not live their lives by the natural order
Body eternally stuck in Rohttuaibmu
Winter Solstice
Spring Equinox
Summer Solstice
Fall Equinox
The Sami Cultural Center is designed to be a social and educational repository for the purpose of not only retaining a dwindling culture, but reinvigorating it. It includes indoor and outdoor assembly areas for gatherings, recreation, and other activities. It also contains spaces to hold lectures, including an outdoor amphitheater. Additionally, the built space is ideal for casual astronomical observation. This is particularly important to the traditional beliefs of the Sami people, who have interlinked their many of religious views with the sky and stars. The building and landscape are thus designed to convey the importance of this and their extended cosmological belief system subliminally, through light, materiality, space, and movement. Thus the facility aids in the reassertion of Sami culture though explicit and implicit means.