Mountain Tongue

A panoramic heat cabbin

Mountain tongue is a heat cabin levitating on top of the existing structures of Ombergets ski facility. It is facilitating a small ski slope in rural northern Sweden. The existing buildings hold the ski lift, a shop, ticket booth and a supply storage.

The heat cabin is placed on stilts so as to allow skier coming down to pass under it and to allow the hiking path to freely continue along the water bank.

The entrance to the building is integrated in to the old, un-used, supply building giving the new structure as close to no physical footprint as possible. A staircase leads up to a wood clad landscape relating to the soft snowdrifts in the slope.

The construction is made out of glulam trusses which is a local resource that relates to Holmsund’s logging history. The skin is made of glass to keep visual contact with the children in the slope and give 360-degree view of the landscape.

Mountain Tongue activates a space, in active most of the year, all year round and celebrates the beauty of northern Sweden’s nature and love of the outdoors, both when it comes to winter and summer activities. The end of the building is facing the entrance to Holmsund where one can see the train and cars come and go in a similar fashion to what the logging workers used to do on the top of the mountain, in spring, when the boats came to the bay with new jobs.