Moraine Landscape

Thousands of years ago, large glaciers slid across the interior of Norway and out to sea. The glacier expanded and contracted between the ice ages, forming valleys where a thick layer of nutrient-rich soil settled. This accumulation of rock and soil is what geologists call a moraine. The moraine has given Fyllingsdalen the nutrient-rich soil that the farmers cultivated hundreds of years ago. Fyllingsdalen’s streams, mountains, lakes and fields occupy the landscape formed by ice, rocks and water. The landscape and architecture in our proposal use the glacier’s enormous forces and the beautiful pattern of the moraine as a starting point for design, because it is they who have given Fyllingsdalen its unique identity.

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Interior, surfaces and colours

The colour palette is translated for use in materials and plants in our area, and gives the various micro, medium and macro zones stable warm hues that improve the rainy weather throughout all seasons, both indoors and outdoors.

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