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Lanterna - Urnes World Heritage Center
Master plan / 1-2000
Ornes - beyond times The same way as the mountains, the riverbed and the native upland surrounding Ornes has been formed by breaking glaciers and melting vast ice sheets, so too has mankind and landscape asjusted each their way of life through millennia. The “Human/Nature” adaptability have created a distinctive synergy brought to form through wood and stone structures. Combined with the scent of the native upland, the sound of the natures pace and the vivid plant growth these conditions has been a prime source of curiosity in the development of this building project. We call it Lanterna.
Local landscape / Towards Solvorn
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Lanterna is inscribed in a landscape of naturepaths and accesses over fields, stone dikes and plantations. Ornes landscape and settlement embraces the darkness that characterizes most months of the year and with the mountains ‘bigger than human’-greatness the landscape reminds us that we are but part of an environment much older than mankind.
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As such the space between Urnes Church and the surrounding landscape points towards a temporal gaze where nature and culture is one but the same the thing.
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Natural conditions / Icicles and cliff formation
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Ornes Cultural Heritage Route The project proposes a new master plan for Ornes aiming to solve to excisting problems: 1) To ease the massive pressure and attention oriented towards Urnes Church and 2) To invite Ornes visitors to learn about and engage with the many other cultural qualities in and nearby the town. 4.
The master plan is created for the area to cater for the lived life of people across different generations. The plan provides unique opportunities to create coherence between a large number of visitors, sales of local products and flexible production facilities which with the new visiting center will give the citizen new action opportunities. Lanterna plays a key role connecting the towns different attractions and as such becomes a vital player facilitating information and guiding to Ornes cultural heritage and landscape. Part of the proposal is a walking path connecting multiple places. The route includes: 1. New harbour bath 2. Viking ship grave 3. Singns of cultural heritage 4. The Kings grave 5. Signs of cultural heritage 6. Urnes Stave Church 7. Bell tower mount x. Possible new descoveries.
Lanterna View / From opposite coastline
Local atmosphere / Ornes habour
Natural local conditions / Ice, snow and water
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