Tungestølen Hiking Cabin / Snøhetta

Text description offered by the architects. Situated in Luster within the western a part of Norway on a small plateau overlooking the attractive Jostedalen glacier, Tungestølen includes a constellation of pentagonal vacationer cabins designed by Snøhetta for Luster Turlag, a neighborhood department of the Norwegian National Trekking Association. Designed as an architectural response to the altering climate circumstances of this mountainous website, the distinct cabins supply guests a snug and beneficiant shelter in the course of the summer season and autumn months when the cabin is open to the general public.

On Christmas Day 2011 the unique Tungestølen Tourist Cabin, which had served as an necessary vacation spot for avowed glacier hikers for greater than a century, was utterly devastated by the cyclone Dagmar that swept over Norway and neighboring nations. Determined to switch the previous cabin, Luster Turlag (a neighborhood department of the Norwegian National Trekking Association) and the small native village of Veitastrond, mobilized to gather funds for the rebuild and initiated a world architectural competitors that Snøhetta received in 2015.

With the ravaging of the unique Tungestølen cabin contemporary in thoughts, Snøhetta designed a brand new constellation of 9 strong pentagonal and indirect cabins, made with wood glue-lam frames, lined by sheets of CLT and clad in ore pine. The outward-facing partitions of the cabins have been given a beak-like form to decelerate robust winds sweeping up from the valley ground. Inside, the playful form of the cabins frames the mountains and valleys outdoors by angular and panoramic home windows, including views and light-weight to the areas whereas encouraging particular person contemplation and respite.

The principal cabin at Tungestølen provides a welcoming area well-suited for collective meals round beneficiant wood tables. At its highest, the ceiling measures 4,6 meters, making a social and spacious assembly spot with panoramic views overlooking the encompassing panorama. The principal cabin additionally includes a snug lounge framed by a big stone-clad fire, providing a comfy retreat from the sometimes-chilly summer season days outdoors.

The remaining cabins encompass a dormitory and a smaller personal unit providing roughly 30 guests the likelihood to spend the night time comfortably. Once all 9 cabins are accomplished within the subsequent building section, Tungestølen can have sufficient capability to accommodate as much as 50 guests. One of the ultimate cabins that can be constructed on the location is the unique mannequin for the Snøhetta designed Fuglemyrhytta cabin in Oslo which has change into an enormously common mountaineering vacation spot ever since its opening in 2018.

Surrounded by a dramatic panorama with steep mountains on all sides, Tungestølen serves as an ideal start line for adept hikers who want to conquer native glaciers in guided teams, but in addition for households with young children who want to take shorter and fewer superior hikes within the surrounding space.