Scan Magazine | Special Theme | Nordic Architecture & Design Special – Norway
Norconsult has used its interdisciplinary know-how to create the plan for the Vamma 12 hydropower plant in Norway. Client: E-CO Energi. Architect responsible for the project: Siv.ark.MNAL Nanna Meidell. Architects: Håvard Holm Endresen, Helia Albuquerque, Simon Korsmoe. Visuals: Ing. Waqas Chaudhry.
Solving challenging tasks of the future through interdisciplinary skills As Norway’s leading interdisciplinary advisor, Norconsult aims to solve some of the key problems of the future in fields including energy and hydropower, using natural resources and innovative architectural methods. By Line Elise Svanevik
In a short space of time, Norconsult has become a significant player in architecture. But this is not a new attribution to the company, which currently employs more than 200 staff within its architectural wing; in 2016, they established architecture as a specific market area covering all disciplines. 70 | Issue 105 | October 2017
Award-winning hydropower plant One of their latest projects is the largest Norwegian hydropower plant in a river – Vamma 12, located in Glomma, Østfold. With its paperless approach, Norconsult delivered only digital models with all the required information for building the hydropower plant. “In this particular project,
all detail planning has been achieved in 3D,” explains Nanna Meidell, architect at Norconsult. “We aim to design our most complicated projects in integrated models, working in visual rooms. However, the initial design phase is more often traditional sketching alongside 3D visualisation. By changing our tools, and the way we think, we stretched our boundaries to solve the task we were presented with.” Through a tight-knit collaboration with its programme developers, the company created the perfect programme